On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Sohail Riaz wrote: > HI Friend > > Edit /etc/inittab file , > > locate line with id:5:initdefault: (something like that) > > change 5 to 3 > > should be look like this -> id:3:initdefault: > > and restart the machine it will now log you in text mode first. argh. you don't need to restart the machine, just switch to runlevel 3 with EITHER OF: :-) # init 3 # telinit 3 rday