Re: Text mode boot

[Richard Hector <rhector@paradise.net.nz>]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:49:51PM +0530, 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

My favourite technique is to edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager.
If this doesn't match any of your available display managers, none of
them will start. I put in /bin/false, but I don't think it matters much.
You couuld probably just put a "#" in front like a comment.

Richard