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   From: Fabio    
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   Subject: how to boot without X? (more generally, about runlevels)   
   Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:38:10 +0000 (UTC)   
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   Hi all,   
      
   I switched to ubuntu (6.06) after many years of redhat/mandrake/mandriva   
   distributions.   
      
   My question is the following. On my old systems, usually runlevels had the   
   following meaning:   
   1: single user mode (failsafe)   
   2: multiuser without network   
   3: full system without X   
   4: free   
   5: full system with X   
   6: halt   
      
   So, if usually I started in 5 and once, for some reason, I wanted to start   
   without X, it was enough to start in runlevel 3.   
      
   On the other hand, in ubuntu all runlevel from 2 to 5 are set to the same   
   values.    
   So how can I choose at boot time to start without X?   
   Moreover, I used lilo. In grub, how do I choose the runlevel?   
      
   Thank you for your attention   
      
   Fabio   
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