On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 08:37, Nejaa Halcyon wrote: Hello rpm -e rhgb or just remove the 'rhgb' from your bootloader. Kevin B

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:14:25PM -0500, WA9ALS - John scripsit: It's part of the options line passed to grub in /boot/grub/grub.conf -- title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img ^^^^ If you want to boot to the console, removing rhgb won't accomplish that; you'll still wind up booting to X. To boot to the console, you want to boot in text mode, which means editing /etc/inittab # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:3:initdefault: ^ If you're booting to X, that 3 will be a five; change it to 3 and you should boot to the console, whether or not rhgb is on the grub options line. -- oak(a)uniserve.com | Uton we hycgan hwaer we ham agen, | ond thonne gedhencan he we thider cumen. | -- The Seafarer, ll. 117-118.

WA9ALS - John wrote: If your bootloader is lilo, in /etc/lilo.conf. If your bootloader is grub, and you use any Linux distro except Fedora or Redhat, in /boot/grub/menu.txt If your bootloader is grub, and you use Fedora or RedHat, in both /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/grub.conf, which are linked, until you break the link trying to edit but screw it up and replace with your backup, and then forget about fixing the link -- "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

Change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5' 'id:5:initdefault': -> 'id:3:initdefault' Scott On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 11:37, Nejaa Halcyon wrote: