On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 12:40 +0500, 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. You don't really have to restart the machine unless you need to test the default runlevel. To save the time of a reboot, you can also just run the command: telinit 3 as root to change to runlevel 3. You will be presented with a text-mode login screen. Cheers, Thomas
