>Sam MacDonald wrote: >> (BTW anyone know how to force text mode start up in RH 8?) >> [Not everything needs to be graphical] Erik Anderson wrote: >And to answer you question about graphical login, look in the file >/etc/inittab. There should be a line in there that looks like: >id:3:initdefault: >change it to: >id:5:initdefault: Exactly the opposite is probably needed as init level 5 is usually a graphical login and init level 3 is usually a (multiuser) console login. Another, perhaps more flexible way, to do this is pass the init level as an argument to the kernel: For lilo, simply duplicate a boot entry in /etc/lilo.conf and add the line append = "3" to it. For grub, simply duplicate a boot entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf and add 3 to the end of the kernel command. For occasional use, grub at boot time can be used to edit a boot entry. Simply edit an entry (e command), highlight the kernel command and edit it by appending 3 to it and finally boot it (b command). However, these steps would have to be repeated each time booting to init level 3 is desired. For those of us who must do things the really hard way, the grub command line allows us to enter the root, kernel and optional initrd commands by hand. Auto-completion is available for the less hardy folks. :) Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list