Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 16:32:26 Albert Hopkins wrote: > The way I see it there are two possible solutions: > > 1. Create a new runlevel, say "nox" and just don't put xdm in the > runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain another > runlevel. I don't see what maintenance load thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-19 Thread forgottenwizard
On 22:37 Wed 19 Dec , Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:45:49 -0500 (EST), David Finkel wrote: > > > You should just be able to pass the nox kernel > > command line option at boot, the xdm init script, > > from baselayout, contains a line which checks the > > kernel command line fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:45:49 -0500 (EST), David Finkel wrote: > You should just be able to pass the nox kernel > command line option at boot, the xdm init script, > from baselayout, contains a line which checks the > kernel command line for the xdm parameter. This works, but because nox stays in

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-19 Thread David Finkel
AIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X To: Gentoo mailing list >I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without >starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is >passed. I poked around the CD

RE: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Jonathan Haws
ay, December 18, 2007 9:34 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X There is a "softlevel" option to add in your grub entry to switch to a different RC. have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level Gal' On Dec 18, 2007 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Thanks very much everyone for the suggestions!! On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 07:15:39PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:32:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > 1. Create a new runlevel, say "nox" and just don't put xdm in the > > runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:32:26 -0600, Albert Hopkins wrote: > 1. Create a new runlevel, say "nox" and just don't put xdm in the > runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain another > runlevel. I have this in /etc/conf.d/local.stop to keep my text runlevel in line with default cd /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Galevsky
There is a "softlevel" option to add in your grub entry to switch to a different RC. have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level Gal' On Dec 18, 2007 5:16 PM, Yahya Mohammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without > starti

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:16 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without > starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is > passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but > failed. Does the kerne

[gentoo-user] Booting up without X

2007-12-18 Thread Yahya Mohammad
I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but failed. Does the kernel have to be modified to do this? Thanks for any pointers. -- [EM