Tony Heaton wrote .. > If your using grub, press enter when you get to the grub prompt. This > takes you to the boot list. Press e to edit and add a 3 and then boot. > This boots to run level 3 which doesn't start x. Once your done in > terminal mode you need to run init 5 as root. This will start the gui > login. You can also just type startx in a terminal to get X running. I like what your saying, but add a 3 to a specific line, or append to the end? If I'm in run level 3 and I type startx, is it the same as switching to run level 5? I think yes, but what's the point of having different commands?