Re: how to boot from..

From: Joe Makowiec (makowiec_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 09/21/05

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    On 20 Sep 2005 in linux.redhat, tony wrote:

    > My fedora liunux 4 keeps booting into X windows and I want to switch
    > that back to just the regular terminal prompt. How do I switch back
    > and forth?

    man inittab

    Specifically, in /etc/inittab, edit this line:

       # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
       # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
       # 1 - Single user mode
       # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
       # 3 - Full multiuser mode
       # 4 - unused
       # 5 - X11
       # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
       #
       id:5:initdefault:

    so that it reads

    id:3:initdefault:

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