Re: text mode boot

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Manish Kumar Arya <manish@linux-haryana.org>:
> hi
>  i  want to boot my debian box in text mode by default, cuz X is not 
> working properly,
> i did edited /etc/inittab file and i saw that default run leve was 2 
> (but on Rhat its 5 for X and 3 for text mode multi user) . any way i 
> changed it to 3 but it still got booted to Graphic mode
> 
> help !
> 

You will have to modify the symlinks in /etc/init.d/rc?.d/.  In
Debian, only run levels 0, 1, and 6 IIRC are special.  All others are
the same until you modify them.  The proper Debian way is to use the
update-rc.d script to modify the symlinks.

HTH,
  Jeffrey