Boot Loader

Spunkdabunk · 03-20-2010, 06:24 PM

I'm a little confuzed as I am trying to add a line to my grub/grub.conf file to make it boot into runlevel 3 and confirms the startup of each service running on my host. I am just curious if this is all I would have to add to that file "id:3:initdefault". Also I was told by a friend to use the confirm command kernal argument which I can't seem to find being an actual command.

Thanks for any help!

syg00 · 03-20-2010, 06:35 PM

Methinks you are looking in the wrong place.
To change the default runlevel, look at /etc/inittab. You may simply be able to add "3" to the kernel line of the bootloader, but that depends on how the particular distros handles that in the init scripts.

bsat · 03-23-2010, 01:29 AM

if you just want to enter into text mode from GUI you can use the command

init 3

or the key combination

cntrl + alt + F1

if you want to boot into text mode every time then you have to modify the file /etc/inittab ( as pointed out by the previous reply).