Booting to command prompt in RedHat 9

woodywellhung · 04-04-2004, 11:20 AM

Hi everyone

Im sure this is basic stuff but how do you stop RH9 loading up the X windows(GNOME etc) and just booting to a command prompt??

Also how once you are at a command prompt do you get back into X Windows.

I think it is done by setting the runlevel to 3 but i dont know how to do this.

Help be appreciated.

XavierP · 04-04-2004, 11:57 AM

As root (using su), edit /etc/inittab to change the default runlevel to 3. Or, press ctl-alt-Fn (where n is a number from 1 to 12) and switch to a console.