On Apr 7, 2005 1:20 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 4:06 PM, kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How do I shut down the X-server and go to command line mode (single user) ? > > You can do the latter without doing the former, by hitting > Ctrl-Alt-F1, or Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc. through Ctrl-Alt-F6. These are your > text-based virtual consoles. Hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the X > session. > > To really boot into single-user mode, the easiest way is to edit your > grub kernel command and add > > single > > to the end of the command. This is the line that starts something like > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ... > > You can do that interactively during grub boot, or you can edit > /boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot. Doing it interactively makes it > easier to recover from typos. > You do not need to reboot to change runlevels. Look at # man init If you type "init 3" from a console you will be dropped to runlevel 3 (multi-user, no X). Use a "2" if you want runlevel 2 (single, no X). To return to multiuser and X use "init 5".
