Booting F9 without X

[Chris Tyler]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:16 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> > What is involved in booting f9 without X (ie with just console logins
> > permitted)?
> 
> Edit your /etc/inittab.
> 
> Change the id/initdefault line, swapping the 5 for a 3 (runlevel 5 is
> "boot to X", runlevel 3 is "boot to text consoles").
> 
> Save, reboot.

Or, if you only want to do this once instead of making it the default
(to recover from an X problem, for example):

- When the grub display appears, hit a key to reveal the menu, select
the desired kernel with up/down arrows, press "A" to append boot
options, type a space and the number "3", press Enter. This will boot
into runlevel 3 instead of the default of 5.

--
Chris