make redhat boot to text rather than graphical mode

duderancher · 10-24-2005, 04:42 PM

How do I make an installation that is currently booting to grapical mode, boot to text mode instead? I will still need to be able to use graphical mode occasionally but do not wish to boot to it.

Regards,

The Dude

DeusExLinux · 10-24-2005, 05:29 PM

Do you mean that you don't want the GUI to load at startup? or you don't want a splash screen?

If you don't want X to start at loadup, change the /etc/inittab change the default runlevel to 3 ...there should be a line that says id:3(or 5):initdefault:

duderancher · 10-25-2005, 11:57 AM

"If you don't want X to start at loadup, change the /etc/inittab change the default runlevel to 3 ...there should be a line that says id:3(or 5):initdefault:"

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

sundialsvcs · 10-25-2005, 12:18 PM

You can also specify the runlevel as a kernel "command line" parameter. One easy way to do that is to define, say in grub.conf, two menu-entries that point to the same kernel, but specify different runlevels.

The default "non-graphic" runlevel is 3; the one that starts X-windows is "5." (See: man init.)