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   From: Fabio    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: how to boot without X? (more generally, about runlevels)   
   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:57:43 +0000 (UTC)   
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   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   Thank you a lot.   
   Form me now it works fine.   
   I did the following: I replicated runlevel 2 in runlevel 3 eliminating   
   only gdm.   
      
   Now at boot time editing grub I made many tries and finally I summed up   
   what I wanted in menu.lst. Now I have two choices: one with   
      
   kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet splash vga=792   
      
   and the other   
      
   kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet splash vga=normal 3   
      
   The first one gives me full standard x, the second one allows me to boot   
   in plain text console, in a mode which does not depend at all from the   
   video card.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Fabio   
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