RE: prompt at startup
i've been away from linux for some time now (sad story) but ain't it so that
xdm is called from /etc/inittab ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Amsden [mailto:aphro@portal.aphroland.org]
Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 18:31
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: prompt at startup
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have installed the gdm. But I need, temporaly, to boot into a prompt
without
> running X windows. How can I do it?
there are many ways. it all depends on what you want to do at the prompt.
usually when i want to boot w/o X it is because there is some problem. i use
lilo so if you use grub or something else this may not work.
when your machine boots usually it says "LILO" for a second or so before
booting linux, hit the shift key(not sure if it matters which one i usually
hit the left one) then you will have a "boot:" prompt
then i do "linux single"
or "linux init=/bin/bash"
linux single will get you to runlevel 1, the other one will just get you
to a shell incase something is badly broken(kernel/drivers or something)
i don't think either of these ways have network connectivity by default
so you will probably have to manually set the network interfaces if you
want network access during this. you could also do this and remove the
symbolic link in /etc/rc2.d that points to your display manager
(usually xdm, kdm or gdm) and reboot normally then you have a normal
boot without a display manager.
nate
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