Ok, since I crashed grub 5 times now, it is time to ask

I am using RedHat 9 on a laptop and I have currently one choice in Grub.

Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)

When editing, I have three lines :

root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

Now, I want to add actually another option wich starts RH straight in the command line, basicially without Gnome or KDE.

I tried using Single Mode, but then of course networking is disabled, which is not quite good ...

Is there some sort configuration which I can use to have the option to boot either with or without XServer ?

You need to change /etc/inittab and set the initdefault line to runlevel 3, instead of 5.
You're on the right track, because you might need to make this change in single user mode initially if your X is broken. (if X is fine, then boot into X and make the change

Ok, just saw that the inittab has very good explanations itself

Now it boots up in init 3 - perfect. Ok, for now I can start X when needed, however, is it possible to have more than one Runlevel configured in Grub

Example:

1. RedHat init level 3
2. RedHat init level 5
3. RedHat init level 1

??

It looks like you just stick the runlevel number at the end of the kernel line.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...runlevels.html

Wow, thanks.

I just duplicated the entries in the grub.conf, add the 5 at the end and now I can chose between those two

Thanks a lot ....

No problem.