On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, ABBAS KHAN bashukhan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi fellows,
Pretty new to CentOS. I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of GUI (or without loading any services). Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the screen at mounting and doing fstab and doesn't proceed further. Is there anyother way to boot CentOS into command prompt without using Rescue option from the installation CD?
You can change to multi-processing command line mode with 'init 3' and single user mode with the command 'init 1'. Modes can be changed dynamically in a running system.
See the file /etc/inittab, it lists all the possible modes, the first line of this file defines the default mode:
id:5:initdefault:
which defaults to running the GUI at boot, change it to:
id:3:initdefault:
to not run the GUI at boot.
Brett