That did the trick. thanks for all the advice, everyone. -Nejaa On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 13:50, Graydon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:14:25PM -0500, WA9ALS - John scripsit: > > > rpm -e rhgb > > > or just remove the 'rhgb' from your bootloader. > > > > Where is that configuration kept, ie if I wanted to change it manually? > > It's part of the options line passed to grub in /boot/grub/grub.conf -- > > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img ^^^^ > > > If you want to boot to the console, removing rhgb won't accomplish > that; you'll still wind up booting to X. > > To boot to the console, you want to boot in text mode, which means editing > /etc/inittab > > # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: > # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) > # 1 - Single user mode > # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) > # 3 - Full multiuser mode > # 4 - unused > # 5 - X11 > # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) > # > id:3:initdefault: > ^ > If you're booting to X, that 3 will be a five; change it to 3 and you should > boot to the console, whether or not rhgb is on the grub options line.
