On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:09:41PM -0500, Whil Hentzen wrote: > I have X (GNOME and KDE) installed, but I'd like to boot to the command prompt > directly, without having to go to the GUI and then get out. > > The RH9 manual (the best doc I can find) says to go to the Graphical GRUB boot > loader screen, type e to edit it, arrow down to the kernel line, type e to > edit it, at the prompt, type the number of the runlevel (e.g. 3), press Enter > to get back to the GRUB screen, type b to boot. > > When I do so, I get a kernel panic. The last line on the screen suggests to > use 'init= option". I try that instead of just '3'. Same kernel panic. > > I don't want to edit inittab. I just want to choose which runlevel to get into > during booting. I'm sure it's trivial and in the manual somewhere... but my > eyes haven't found it yet. > > -- I am not sure what you are doing wrong but I would try the a option which will do what you want to do more quickly and directly. The kernel panic I suspect from the fact that when you are editing the line you are screwing up the root=LABEL=/ entry on the line so the root option does not match the entry for the root partition in the fstab file. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
