On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 10:11:19PM -0600, Ivan Trail wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a question pertaining to the option that starts X automatically. I
> tried to configure a serial mouse and I thought all was well until I booted the
> next startup at which time the computer booted to the place where it starts X
> and hanged with the hdd making nioses and the screen flashing. Using the
> ctrl-alt-del I could shutdown, and I noticed it said fatal server error: could
> not start mouse: no such device. I finally remedied this with an upgrade to
> 7.0. Not the best way to handle the situation. I finally have the new 7.0
> working ok, but my question is for futer referance. Is there a way to go back
> to the command shell that starts when there is no auto start of X? I guess I
> could make a bootdisk that has that option, but I don't know how to do that.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
Mandrake boots to runlevel 5 by default, and that's probably the
only runlevel for which it configured kdm (i.e., auto start of
X). You can enter a different runlevel by passing it as an
option to the kernel at boot time. So if you use LILO and your
default bootup is called "linux", it'd look like:
boot: linux 4
to boot to runlevel 4, which would start just about everything
except for X. Other useful run-levels are 1 and S (for
single-user mode).
later,
- rick
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