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From: Fabio 
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Subject: Re: how to boot without X? (more generally, about runlevels)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:57:43 +0000 (UTC)
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>> 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.
>

Thank you a lot.
Form me now it works fine.
I did the following: I replicated runlevel 2 in runlevel 3 eliminating
only gdm.

Now at boot time editing grub I made many tries and finally I summed up
what I wanted in menu.lst. Now I have two choices: one with

kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet splash vga=792

and the other

kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet splash vga=normal 3

The first one gives me full standard x, the second one allows me to boot
in plain text console, in a mode which does not depend at all from the
video card.

Regards

Fabio
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