Bruce Douglas wrote:
Then you don't need it to start up in graphics mode, which may explain why it's freezing up on you. Change your /etc/inittab to boot into runlevel 3 - look for the line at the beginning that says 'id:5:initdefault:' and change it to 3 instead of 5. Reboot.jim...
i'm simply doing a regular boot up process... if there's a way to do a straight 'text' boot up, i'm game to try it...
all i want to do is to get the machine to boot, and get completely through the process....
once the machine is up/running, it's only accessed via ssh/vnc...
-bruce
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