Re: Stoppings X Windows from auto-booting

["David O'Callaghan" <david ocallaghan ul ie>]

Its in /etc/inittab. Change 
id:5:initdefault:

to 

id:3:initdefault:

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Shawn Gu scribbled:
> You can change your run level to 3, I think your run level is 5 so X
> starts at boot time.  I forget which file in /etc/ to configure to change
> run level, I don't have my books with me.
> 
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> Shawn Gu
> homepage: http://grove.ufl.edu/~gux
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Marc Joseph Henderson wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:43:57 -0400
> > From: Marc Joseph Henderson <arcticfox mindspring com>
> > Reply-To: Marc Joseph Henderson <Fox KILL-KILL-KILL com>
> > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject: Stoppings X Windows from auto-booting
> > Resent-Date: 15 Jul 1999 03:52:26 -0000
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> > Hiyas!
> > 
> > Ack, I have a little situation<g>. I need to stop X Windows from
> > automatically booting (ugh, don't ask me why I told it to). The problem is
> > that I can't get into X Windows because it shows a black screen everytime (I
> > think I put the resolution up "too high," even though the card is capable of
> > going even higher in Windows).
> > 
> > I tried my boot disk made during installation, but that always gives a
> > kernel panic and I get nowhere. I tried changing the resolutiong settings
> > when the Linux scandisk-equivalent prog let me login as root (for
> > maintenance on the disk from the hard reset), however I was in read-only
> > mode (joy).
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > --Fox
> > 
> > 
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