Booting without starting X server

Peronthious · 04-23-2006, 12:44 PM

Whenever I boot Fedora Core, it immediately goes to the GUI without giving me any options. How do I boot withiout starting the X server?

ataraxia · 04-23-2006, 12:52 PM

You have to change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab. There's a line in there like this one:
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id:5:initdefault:
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Change the "5" to "3".

PTrenholme · 04-23-2006, 01:56 PM

You could also just modify your /root/grub/grub.conf to look like this:

Code:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core 5 (2.6.16-1.2096)
        root (hd1,1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp ro root=/dev/FC5/Volume1 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp.img
title Fedora Core 5 (2.6.16-1.2096) [No GUI, Show boot messages]
        root (hd1,1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp ro root=/dev/FC5/Volume1 3
        initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp.img

Where, of course, you would use your own root= path.