How to boot in text mode

Michael J. Pawlowsky mikep at mi-consultants.com
Thu Dec 9 21:21:46 UTC 2004


You can open up a term in graphical mode...  one of the small word menus 
at the bottom (at least they have one in Gnome).
And then in /etc/inittab set initdefault from 5 to 3 and reboot.



Don wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Newly installed Fedora Core 3 machine.  I cannot log in via graphical 
> mode (I loaded KDE) as it just hangs after I enter my user/password.  
> Is there a way to force boot in text mode?
>




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