Re: Booting to Text Mode Login

From: Andy Green (fedora_at_warmcat.com)
Date: 08/16/04

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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:51:28 +0100

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    On Monday 16 August 2004 19:47, Thom Paine wrote:
    > I just downloaded the nvidia drivers for my desktop. In the readme it
    > says to exit X and boot to the text mode login. My machine boots to the
    > gui login. How do I make the change? I even don't mind if it stays that
    > way.

    You should be able to get to a text mode console with Crtl-Alt-F1, for
    example. Ctrl-Alt-F7 will normally get you back into X.

    Do Ctrl-Alt-F1, login and do telinit 3 as root. This will move you to
    runlevel 3, where X is not running, and X will be stopped. Then you can do
    the nVidia deed.

    If you want it to stay that way for future boots, edit /etc/inittab and change
    the line

    id:5:initdefault:

    to

    id:3:initdefault:

    If you then want to start X from text mode, it will be a job for telinit 5

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