On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:35:26PM -0800, Dennis Krinke,,, wrote:
| I would like to change configuration
| so that I boot into a console,
| rather than to X-windows graphical login.
|
| I tried changing /etc/inittab line 5 from
| id:5:initdefault: to
| id:2:initdefault:
| but this did not do it...
Did you make '5' the default runlevel in the first place? By default
debian uses runlevel 2, and all runlevels are identical (the 5->2
change sounds like a redhat thing).
To disable X's starting at boot you need to disable your display
manager in the runlevel you are booting to. My system boots to run
level 2, and I use 'gdm' as my display manager. The simplest way for
me to stop gdm from starting is (as root) :
mv /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm /etc/rc2.d/notS99gdm
To understand _why_ this stops gdm from starting on boot read up on
how SysV init works.
-D
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