You should look in /etc/inittab
and change the run level to 3 (from 5)
Change this line
id:5:initdefault:
to this
id:3:initdefault:
This will give you a true text mode startup.
P.
Phil Savoie wrote:
>On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:13, Scott Heisler wrote:
>
>
>>I'm wanting my Centos 4.0 box to boot up into TEXT mode, like all of my
>>other Linux servers do. Unfortunately, it only boots into graphics
>>mode and there's some issue with the keyboard (it controls the mouse,
>>very poorly). I can SSH into the box so I can re-config it.. But just
>>don't know where to look in this new version. I tried GRUB.CONF and
>>even the SYSTEM_CONFIG programs.. No luck.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>
>
>Hi Scott
>
>As root you can go into the file /etc/sysconfig/init and look for the line
>that says GRAPHICAL=yes and change the yes to a no.
>
>You should be good to go from there.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Phil
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