[Fedora] Re: [Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor.

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Bruce Douglas wrote:

>jim...
>
>i'm simply doing a regular boot up process... if there's a way to do a straight 'text' boot up, i'm game to try it...
>
>all i want to do is to get the machine to boot, and get completely through the process....
>
>once the machine is up/running, it's only accessed via ssh/vnc...
>
>-bruce
>  
>
    Then you don't need it to start up in graphics mode, which may 
explain why it's freezing up on you.  Change your /etc/inittab to boot 
into runlevel 3 - look for the line at the beginning that says 
'id:5:initdefault:' and change it to 3 instead of 5.  Reboot.

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