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Old 05-12-2003, 03:05 PM   #1
ragecyr
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booting to x or command rh9

during my rh9 install, i never saw the option to boot to command line or x, so defaulty im in X. Where can i set it so i boot to command line first? THanx


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Old 05-12-2003, 03:10 PM   #2
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edit:
/etc/inittab

and change the "initdefault" line to 3 rather than 5.

or you can append " 3" to your kernel aguments - this way you can have 2 bootloader entries, one for X and one for CLI.
 
  


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