remove startup to xwindow?

ziggie216 · 10-09-2003, 04:55 PM

when my RH finish loading everything during the bootup, it would start strait into xwindow. does anyone which files can disable this?

h/w · 10-09-2003, 05:00 PM

ur default runlevel must be set to 5 for it to do this.
edit the /etc/inittab file to make it 2 or some.

SharpyWarpy · 10-10-2003, 07:08 AM

I use Mandrake 9.0, and the way I did it was edit a line in /etc/inittab, where it read
id:5:initdefault:
I changed it to read
id:3:initdefault:
Read any comments above this line, yours may be different. Whatever you do, don't put in the number corresponding with "reboot", as the system will constantly reboot, requiring a start with your Linux emergency boot disc and a re-editing of the /etc/inittab file.
If you do it right, you'll wind up in console mode, just log in there.

aaa · 10-10-2003, 09:07 AM

Most distros use '0' for shutdown, '6' for reboot, and '3' for multiuser command-line. It's the runlevel for graphical login that varies the most from distro to distro.

Oxagast · 10-10-2003, 11:18 AM

i just commented out the place where i start xdm from inittab... but i use gentoo, did not come like that by default i had to PUT it in there so it's quite possible your soupose to do it diff