Re: CentOS-6 Status updates

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Ron Blizzard wrote:
> 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.

Or edit /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3, or just init 3 from the
command line (which you can reach via <ctrl><alt>-f1) or I think you can
append 3 to the kernel line....

         mark

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