Re: prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:29:16AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > On your lilo prompt enter "linux 2" assuming the label for your preferred > kernel > is linux and the runlevel for console is 2. Unless you've changed these, these > values will work. this is debian not redhat. -- Ethan Benson htt

RE: prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i've been away from linux for some time now (sad story) but ain't it so that xdm is called from /etc/inittab ? -Original Message- From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 18:31 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: prompt at startup

Re: prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 March 2001 12:29, Jason Majors wrote: > On your lilo prompt enter "linux 2" assuming the label for your > preferred kernel is linux and the runlevel for console is 2. Unless > you've changed these, these values will work. [...] In the u

Re: prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi > I have installed the gdm. But I need, temporaly, to boot into a prompt without > running X windows. How can I do it? there are many ways. it all depends on what you want to do at the prompt. usually when i want to boot w/o X it is because there is some problem

Re: prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Jason Majors
On your lilo prompt enter "linux 2" assuming the label for your preferred kernel is linux and the runlevel for console is 2. Unless you've changed these, these values will work. I don't know if the default lilo setup will allow you to select like this. You might have to enable it by editing /etc/li