Temporary: "linux 3" at boot
Permanent: set default runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you 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.
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