cannot kill Xserver
 

I have a very strange problem. During startup (suse linux old distro) LILO immediately after stratup procedure I can see login for about 1 sec and then Xserver starts. I'm unable to kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+F1....
So the question is: is there any way I can force linux to boot into console mode before it starts xserver? (I'm unable to modify any files since I cannot reach the consol mode)?

Is there any shortcut ky I need to press during boot in order to prevent GUI from starting?
Thanks

Edit the /etc/inittab file and boot in runlevel 3

and then to start X; use startx command

vi /etc/inittab


Note:Runlevels

To switch to console, You should use Ctrl+Alt+F1 combination.
After gaining access to the tty1 You can do what prayag_pjs have said.

Hi Micik,

I am also facing same problem when u get the solution please to inform me!!

Since I know what is the IP address of this computer, I have connected to the network and used telnet to login as root. And then I have edited inittab. Problem was that I was unable to get to the terminal window to edit any files.
Greetings

Its good that you know the ip address so do ssh

Give root password and edit the file using vi editor

But you should be able to do ctrl+alt+f2 to login cli in the same computer and edit inittab file