Hi,

I'm want to know how to boot to the shell prompt instead of going directly into redhat8.

Is there a quick way of doing this without modifying a file in redhat?

Basically i'm trying to boot the pc into dos instead of windows

Thanks!

Which version of Windows are you running?
If you are running Windows 95 / 98 ?me what you can do is when lilo (or grub) loads up asking you if you want to boot redhat or windows, choose windows, and IMMEDIATELY press F8. This will bring up a menu. Choose "Command Prompt Only", and it will boot to command prompt.

I think the DOS/Win thing was just an analogy.

You mean CLI vs. GUI, right?

In inttab you'll see a line about the default runlevel that will probably say '5' and you want to change that to something like '3' - run the multi-user networked CLI startup rather than the GUI. Then, if you want X from CLI, it's just 'startx' on most every distro.

Otherwise, depending on your X session manager's login (or lack thereof) you might be able to add CLI to a graphical login option, if you've got one - that'd be xdmrc maybe or something like. And of course, you boot into GUI as is, but can ctrl-alt-f1 to get the CLI.

Otherwise, I don't know how you'd manage it - at least *some* file is going to need editing.