On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Robert Menes wrote: > Hi folks, I have a Debian lenny-stable install that I need a little > memory refresher with. > > I need to boot and go straight to a terminal, and not start X on > bootup. I know there was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). > > Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, > bypassing X? Thanks!
In R-H variants, starting in runlevel 2 does the trick. But this is Debian. You need to set up your inittab by your self and do it by providing boot parameters. http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch04.en.html#therunlevelmanagementexample Grub boot parameter after typig "e": change: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 to something like: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
