How to boot in text mode

[Bernd Radinger]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:16:32 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am Do, den 09.12.2004 schrieb James Kosin um 22:31:
> 
> > That didn't work for me in FC3.  I had to boot the Recovery CD edit
> > inittab and set to runlevel 3.
> >
> > James Kosin
> 
> No problem here (and AFAIR not in the past) on FC3. It boots fine with
> "3" (without quotes) added to the kernel line by grub boot modification.
> And I don't see a reason why it shouldn't do.
> 
> [adalloz at bartleby ~]$ uname -a; cat /proc/cmdline
> Linux bartleby.dogma.lan 2.6.9-1.681_FC3.stk16 #1 Mon Nov 22 16:44:32
> EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet clock=pit 3
> 
> Alexander
> 

some users use 'e' in grub or forget the space before the runlevel

-- 
Bernd