On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:29 -0800, jim phelps wrote: > I prefer to boot to a text based 'console', then start > the X system and KDE using 'startx'. Ive managed to do > this on other systems, (RH7,RH9,FC2), by changing > initdefault in inittab from 5 to 3 (or 2 in FC4, there is no > network). > > When I attempt to return from KDE, however, instead of > returning to a normal console screen (black with white text), > the screen turns pink with a narrow green border! There were some serious faults with the initial Xorg installation that produced things like that. An update fixed it. Try that. > If I revert to the default graphical boot, I still have a problem > in that if I click on the 'shutdown' tab at the bottom of the > screen, the system shutsdown, but then immediatly reboots. > I want it to shutdown and HALT. Some motherboards need you to reboot in a different way, there are kernel parameters that set this up. I had to do that with one of mine, which had the same problem. Edit your grub.conf file, and try adding something like reboot=b onto the end of the kernel line. Have a look through the kernel documentation, the "kernel-parameters.txt" text should help you determine what you need. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
