On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:19, Ben Steeves wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:04, Mark Haney wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:59 -0500, shane c branch <scbranch@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > As I understand you, you wish to boot to runlevel 3 as default? > > > > Well yes and no. I do need to boot to runlevel 3 one time to get the > > VMware tools installed, but want to keep it at RL 5 the rest of the time. > > Assuming you're using GRUB, you just: > > 1) From the main screen, highlight the kernel you want to boot and press > 'e'. > 2) Highlight the line starting with 'kernel' (the second line in most > default stanzas), and press 'e' again. > 3) Append a '1', '3', or '5' to the line, depending on what run-mode you > want, and hit enter. > 4) Press 'b' to boot from the altered stanza. Just as a note, you can actually just press A <space> 3 <return> and that will do it. A allows you to append to the kernel line. Essentially the same thing, just several key strokes quicker ;) Doug
