On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:10:57 +0000, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: > > if you want runlevel 1, you need to boot to runlevel 1 from start. You can use the telinit command to switch run levels. Doing this from an X session is going to drop your session, so you want to be OK with that before doing it.