Is there a way to make slack boot to console before kdm starts?

M$ISBS · 03-23-2006, 11:39 PM

I need to stop kdm from starting during boot, is there a key combination that will stop kdm and X from starting and jump to a console?

kencaz · 03-23-2006, 11:48 PM

Change your runlevel in "inittab" to 3

id:3:initdefault:

This will start in CLI...

startx will launch Window Mgr.

KC

M$ISBS · 03-24-2006, 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kencaz

Change your runlevel in "inittab" to 3

id:3:initdefault:

This will start in CLI...

startx will launch Window Mgr.

KC

I have no way of getting to a console to do that. Is there a way to get to a console before KDM starts?
Ctrl-F6 does not work. I was trying to get S-VIDEO working and really screwed up things.

ntubski · 03-24-2006, 01:11 AM

Ctrl+Alt+F1 should get you back to console after kdm starts. But can't you edit a file from KDE?

M$ISBS · 03-24-2006, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ntubski

Ctrl+Alt+F1 should get you back to console after kdm starts. But can't you edit a file from KDE?

KDE does not start, I have no video except the boot up messages, then the screen goes black.

Komakino · 03-24-2006, 02:29 AM

You're using lilo as your boot manager, right?

At your boot menu, choose the option you want and on the command line at the bottom of the screen add the number 2, so your boot line will look something like:

Linux 2

and press enter. That will boot into runlevel 2.

M$ISBS · 03-24-2006, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Komakino

You're using lilo as your boot manager, right?

At your boot menu, choose the option you want and on the command line at the bottom of the screen add the number 2, so your boot line will look something like:

Linux 2

and press enter. That will boot into runlevel 2.

Yes, LILO but I have no place to enter 2, once I choose the option in lilo it starts booting.

ntubski · 03-24-2006, 12:53 PM

Just press 2 when the selection is on the menu item. Then press enter. Or wait, shouldn't that be 3

Anyways, if it's your xorg.conf that is screwed up, you should still be able to get to the console via Ctrl+Alt+F1

PDock · 03-24-2006, 06:37 PM

Slackware leaves tty6 as a console login even with a gui initdefault so if your lilo does not have a prompt or timeout= such that you can not add a 1 or 3 after the menu name then try ctl alt f6 at your black screen.

Komakino · 03-24-2006, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by M$ISBS

Yes, LILO but I have no place to enter 2, once I choose the option in lilo it starts booting.

Just choose the option using the cursor key, don't press enter, and type a space then a 2, then press enter...or indeed as has been mentioned (and I forgot) press CTRL-ALT-F6 to get a console.

M$ISBS · 03-24-2006, 08:05 PM

I understand the suggestions about tty6, but I do not get a console I get a bunch of small, colored squares on the screen as if the console is there in a different video mode, None of it is legible. This happened after I tried to setup xorg.conf to work with S-Video out, I have switched to the xorg.conf I backed up but I still get the black screen and colored dots.

M$ISBS · 03-24-2006, 08:25 PM

I went ahead and ran xorgconfig and that fixed the problem. It looks like the fonts in xorg.conf were all gone. I have no idea why the backup I made did not work or why the fonts were gone....

Thanks.