On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Adam Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, >> not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of >> interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? >> >> The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. >> > > Put gentoo=nox on the end of the VM's boot line at the boot loader.
Thanks to you both Adam and Dale. I found the nox keyword searching in Google but couldn't figure out how to use it correctly. It does exactly what I was looking for. The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user account added without stopping at the login like this. Cheers, Mark
