At 20:59 4/22/2004, you wrote:
All consoles are there in /etc/inittab. Console 1 was simply busy running X. The answer was to use CTRL+ALT+Backspace to terminate X.
I missed the start of this thread, but you can also boot into single-user mode to edit /etc/inittab by:
1. Pressing 'c' to customize your startup in GRUB.
2. Selecting the line that starts with "kernel" and pressing 'e' to edit.
3. Appending the word "single" to the kernel line.
4. Pressing 'b' to boot.
I may not have that down exactly since I'm not at a console right now, but it's close. Once booted into single-user mode, edit /etc/inittab and find a line like:
id:5:default
Change that "5" to a "3", then command "init 6" to reboot. The system will then come up in runlevel 3 which is the same as 5 but in text-mode... no X at all.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
