Re: CentOS-6 Status updates

[Ron Blizzard <rb4centos@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line.
>
> To boot into "everything but X", you can append "text" to the kernel
> (grub1) or linux (grub2) line in the grub configuration.

Okay, thanks. Good to know. I forget what "kludging" process I had to
go through to get Mint to boot into text, I think I disabled the X
server somehow.  But even when I got to text mode,  the Nouveau driver
had loaded, which is why I eventually had to blacklist it before
installing the proprietary nVidia driver.

-- 
RonB -- Using CentOS 5.6
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