GRUB: Boot without XFree86, how can I do?

Michele Spinolo · 11-17-2004, 02:04 PM

this first for clarification!

I have FC1 installed with two kernels, which actually GRUB correctly detect and ask which one to load.

Now what I would like to do is to add a third option where one of these two kernels is loaded without graphic support, can someone help me?

Thanks!

abisko00 · 11-17-2004, 02:06 PM

Don't know if this will work with FC1, but in SuSE it's sufficient to add a 3 to the kernel parameters in /boot/grub/menu.lst (boots to runlevel 3)

Michele Spinolo · 11-17-2004, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by abisko00
Don't know if this will work with FC1, but in SuSE it's sufficient to add a 3 to the kernel parameters in /boot/grub/menu.lst (boots to runlevel 3)

this is an example grub.conf part from a Suse installation:

Code:

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off
acpi=off vga=normal noresume iommu=noforce maxcpus=0  3
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd

do you mean it is enough to add the number 3 displayed above?

Anyone with a FC1 installation?

abisko00 · 11-17-2004, 02:23 PM

At least it's enough to type the 3 on the grub menu, but I have never tried to include it into menu.lst. Maybe it must read init=3, but I think 3 will do.