booting straight to GUI

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Sep 18 18:55:53 UTC 2004


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.

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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