From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: How do I stop GUI from autoloading? Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:07:12 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EC92B60.1000406@bcgreen.com> References: <20030510100903.GA1586@localhost.localdomain> <20030510160917.GA890@localhost.localdomain> <3EC9198F.9080600@bcgreen.com> <200305192049.41645.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200305192049.41645.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Richard Adams Cc: Amin , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Richard Adams wrote: > On Monday 19 May 2003 19:51, Stephen Samuel wrote: >>Amin wrote: >>>On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 08:42:05AM -0700, Ray Olszewski >>>wrote: > choose Linux it will be highlighted at the :Boot" prompt, add a "1" or a "3" > after it, 1 or 3 is the runlevel if any askes... > When booted into one or 3 they are both console modes, do the following; > cd /etc > vi inittab > (Got to something like line 20) a line which looks like); > id:4:initdefault: > {OR} > id:5:initdefault: > Edit that line to; > id:3:initdefault: > save the file, now on the next boot linux will boot into console mode. > > Find your problem at ease now and then when you are sure you can boot properly > change /etc/inittab back to runlevel 4 or 5 which ever your distro uses. This solution presumes that X startup is controlled by the runlevel. I presume that you know about TurboLinux. I really only know RedHat. Apparently, some versions of Linux use methods other than run level to control X-Windows startup. -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication, reaching through fear, uncertainty and doubt to touch the jewel within each person and bring it to life. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs