Christopher A. Williams wrote: <snip>
3) Switching to runlevel 3 (using the command: init 3) hangs the system. I never get to a text-mode login prompt. Changing /etc/inittab to default to runlevel 3 and rebooting works just fine.
Did you try Ctrl-Alt-F1 ? If I remember correctly you get bumped over to the 8th console (Ctrl-Alt-F8) when you switch runlevels.
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