Re: Disabling X from starting up
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Silvester van der Bijl wrote:
> Please help,
>
> I just installed debian, compiled a custom kernel and tried to reboot
> the system.
>
> Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't configure X
> yet I get a garbled screen. I tried to exit by pressing
> ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE, but it seems it restarts every time.
>
> Does anyone now how to disable or abort the graphical login manager so I
> can first configure it ?
check your /etc/inittab. it probably is setting you to runlevel 5 (xdm)
with a line that looks like:
id:5:initdefault:
to boot up without x, change it to runlevel 3:
id:3:initdefault:
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trey
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