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   From: SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid>   
   Subject: Re: how to boot without X? (more generally, about runlevels)   
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   Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:10:02 GMT   
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   * Fabio wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > 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   
      
   The theory is that you can kill gdm in rc3 by changing the symlink in    
      
   /etc/rc3.d   
      
   and then boot it using the below method.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   'e' to edit   
      
   at the grub prompt with the appropriate kernel selected, append the   
   runlevel desired to the end of the line:   
      
   kernel /vmlinuz-2.X ro root=/dev/hda1 3   
      
   then 'b' to boot   
      
   Let me conclude with the fact that I cant make this work and manually   
   killing gdm has not worked for me either. Do post your progress please.   
      
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