booting straight to GUI
Patrick Boutilier
boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Sat Sep 18 23:29:10 UTC 2004
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:49, Gregory Clarke wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>
>>
>>
>>I would like to prevent FC2 from booting into the GUI (Gnome) login
>>screen and just have it boot straight to the command prompt. Can
>>someone please tell me where I can configure this?
>>
>>I'm not sure what to edit in /etc/grub.conf if that is where it is.
>>
>
> Its not in grub, but in /etc/inittab IIRC.
Well it could be in grub.conf. :-) I once had a "problem" where I
changed /etc/inittab to boot into runlevel 3 but when I rebooted I kept
getting runlevel 5. Turns out I had a 5 at the end of my kernel line in
/etc/grub.conf :-)
>
> Find this line:
> ------------
> id:3:initdefault:
> ------------
> and make your version like it. It probably says "id:5:initdefault:"
> now, which starts x and then does the login thing.
>
>
>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>>ruffneck
>
>
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