On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 12:19, Manish Kumar Arya wrote: > 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 ! > > -Manish > www.LinuxIndia.net This isn't RedFedora - runlevels 2 through 5 on Debian GNU/Linux are originally identical, so that the sysadmin can select what is appropriate for that site. If you want a console, <ctrl><alt><F1> through <F6> will get you to a console; if you want to stop the graphical login to X11 server, go into a selected runlevel's startup rc directory (such as /etc/rc2.d) and move any S*[gkwx]dm to X99[gkwx]dm, and set the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to that one. If X11 is crashing and you seem to be getting nowhere at getting to a console to make the changes, you may need to restart with linux single in Lilo (or whatever name you use for your default kernel, followed by the word single.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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