[ltp] Linux/TP Newbie Questions

SMichelle linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:48:13 -0700


> The system starts the graphical login from "init level 5".  I suspect
> if you look at /etc/lilo.conf you'll see that they have appended a "5"
> to the boot string.  As root, remove the "5" and run /sbin/lilo then
> reboot. This will cause you boot into init level 3, which is plain old
> text mode.  Then you can login and run "startx" to start whatever
> desktop is configured.

Under Redhat when I've changed from a graphical to text login I changed
the default runlevel line in the /etc/inittab file. 

Regards,

/Sharon

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