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there are plenty of ways to change. in x normal x session run "init 3" as root for example. you would do it via grub by pressing e to edit and adding "init 3" to the command line before you run it.
Jesus christ this guy is a newbie and you idiots are telling him to f@ck with his grub file, yeah thats smart, here is an appifany, change the line in your /etc/inittab from:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
and if your wondering how to boot up enogh to be able to change it, at the grub load sceen, hit e, then edit the line:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
to
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi s
then boot to singe and edit the above mentioned /etc/innittab file.
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