Grub entry to start without X

[Carnal Ortega]

Mike, I was referring to when/if problems occur while in an X session.

Mike Fedyk wrote:

> If the X server doesn't startup correctly at level5 then you will have 
> the text login to perform your repairs without switching run levels. 
> Just press alt+[123456]
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> Carnal Ortega wrote:
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>> Out of habit I boot into runlevel 3 by default because I feel 
>> runlevel 5 is like windows. What I mean by that is if video problems 
>> occur or any situation where X crashes in runlevel 5 the user will 
>> most likely be forced to reboot his system whereis if it occured in 
>> runlevel 3 the user would be dumped to the console where he can 
>> restart x instead.
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>> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>>> Of course if you want to boot up into runlevel 3 always, then changing
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>>> the inittab entry is the correct way. You are right. I just didn't
>>> understand the OP in this way. Maybe because I see Fedora as a desktop
>>> system and when someone wants to run a CLI system why then did he
>>> install an X server?
>>>
>>> As always: multiple possible routes and different opinions :)
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