Re: Help! How not to start X ?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Charles Baker said:
> If you can't get to a virtual terminal, then as your system boots at the
> lilo prompt type "linux single".  This will boot linux into single user
> mode and you can edit /etc/inittab as needed.  There is probably a line
> like this
> 
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> which you will want to change to 
> 
> id:3:initdefault:

Debian doesn't use runlevels to control whether X starts or not.  (Given that
this message is being distributed by the debian-laptop list and Ben
specifically stated that it was a fresh Debian install, I doubt that he's
running Red Hat...)

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