Goto Command Line from Grub without X

[Neil Cherry]

Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I have looked through the grub docs but do not find explicit statement 
> of how I can go directly to the linux command line in a non-x-windows 
> environment from grub even though the system is set to go to x-windows 
> in inittab.

You can either add 3 or init 3 to the end of the kernel line in the
grub.conf file. I can't remember which. This will boot you into
init level 3 which should be a login to the command line.

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