Re: NoX idea

[Ken Bloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:36:46 +0100, Jesus Climent wrote:

> What would people think about adding a check on all the *dm managers (read
> kdm, gdm and friends) about cheking the kernel command line from
> /proc/cmdline and grep for nox?
> 
> I have the need some times to start a laptop with console mode, and it
> would be nice to just add an append to the kernel command line to stop it
> from running...
> 
> Any comments?

Along with all of the explanation about how to set up a runlevel to start
without X, I'll just mention that to actually boot the kernel in that
runlevel, you just use the number of that runlevel as a free option on the
kernel commandline.

If you were using lilo, then you could configure the kernel to boot into
runlevel 2 (instead of the default set in /etc/inittab) by using 
append="2"
in the kernel stanza meant for this, or by just running 
linux 2
(assuming linux was the name of your normal stanza)

--Ken Bloom

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