Goto Command Line from Grub without X - RESOLVED

[Bob Hartung]

Thanks Les,
  I must have read through the man page for grub a dozen times but was 
not able to pick out that sequence.  Works fine. 

  Thanks again,

Bob

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:58, Bob Hartung wrote:
>   
>> I guess that I was not clear.  I understand how to change the default 
>> action during boot by editing inittab.  Sometimes however, as when 
>> compiling the nVidida linux drivers, I must be in a non-X environment 
>> without X running at all.  In this case it would be nice to be able to 
>> boot to a non-X environment without editing inittab.  Such as before 
>> grub we could enter Linux 3 at boot and go to a non-X system without the 
>> inittab edit.
>>     
>
> If you hit a key while the grub menu is displayed you can edit
> the kernel line to change the options passed.  First highlight
> the grub menu selection you want (probably the default one), hit
> 'e' to edit, select the kernel line and hit 'e' to edit, add
> the runlevel you want at the end of the line - '3' in this case,
> then 'b' to boot.
>
>