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Subject: Re: how to boot without X? (more generally, about runlevels)
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:10:02 GMT
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* Fabio wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
> Hi all,

> I switched to ubuntu (6.06) after many years of redhat/mandrake/mandriva
> distributions.

> My question is the following. On my old systems, usually runlevels had the
> following meaning:
> 1: single user mode (failsafe)
> 2: multiuser without network
> 3: full system without X

The theory is that you can kill gdm in rc3 by changing the symlink in 

/etc/rc3.d

and then boot it using the below method.

> 4: free
> 5: full system with X
> 6: halt

> So, if usually I started in 5 and once, for some reason, I wanted to start
> without X, it was enough to start in runlevel 3.

> On the other hand, in ubuntu all runlevel from 2 to 5 are set to the same
> values. 
> So how can I choose at boot time to start without X?
> Moreover, I used lilo. In grub, how do I choose the runlevel?

'e' to edit

at the grub prompt with the appropriate kernel selected, append the
runlevel desired to the end of the line:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.X ro root=/dev/hda1 3

then 'b' to boot

Let me conclude with the fact that I cant make this work and manually
killing gdm has not worked for me either. Do post your progress please.

-- 
David
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