Changing Boot From Graphic to Text

mpgram · 03-30-2004, 12:55 PM

I have Red Hat 9.0. I am trying to figure out how to change the default boot promt from graphical to text. Does anyone know how? And if so, would they mind letting me know?

Thanks.

muah · 03-30-2004, 01:20 PM

Edit your /etc/inittab and change default run level to 3.

mpgram · 03-30-2004, 06:57 PM

Will that cause me to reset which services are starting?

|2ainman · 03-31-2004, 03:06 AM

not sure ... if u login through text and then do "init 5" .. then it should start up all those services in run level 5 .. but if you dont go into graphical .. i think some services may not be running .. not sure though.

refields · 04-02-2004, 11:38 AM

Actually it's pretty easy to see what is supposed to start and stop at each run level:

/sbin/chkconfig --list

You can also look around in /etc/rc.d and see what gets started and stopped at each run level (the directories rc0.d-rc6.d contain links to start and stop scripts kept in /etc/init.d).

These directories are linked all around and you'll see rcX.d in /etc/ and also in /etc/rc.d/ but not to worry - they contain the same things because they basically are the same (that link thing).

refields · 04-02-2004, 11:42 AM

Oh - mpgram - I think that generally switching between run level 3 and run level 5 won't start or stop anything but X. When I do the /sbin/chkconfig --list command, everything is the same between run levels 3 and 5 except a vmware daemon - but that is a program that provides a way to run Windows in a virtual machine and is not part of the standard RH Linux distribution.

If it wasn't for vmware, mine would be identical.