One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders! Now, my KVM and 25 foot cord is just too long to send a GUI signal across the room and I'm missing 50% of the screen.. striped vertically.. at about 1/8th inch spacing. Not really good enough to see what I'm in nor what the crap I'm doing. I do see I guess an Xterm window.. so I guess I can issue commands.. or... maybe I'll have to drag over a derned monitor. Shew!!
Thanks, John Hinton
Am Mi, den 20.04.2005 schrieb John Hinton um 0:27:
One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders!
John Hinton
Remove "rhgb" from kernel boot parameter line in grub.conf.
Alexader
P.S. You should rethink the way you express yourself. Whom do you blame?
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Mi, den 20.04.2005 schrieb John Hinton um 0:27:
One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders!
John Hinton
Remove "rhgb" from kernel boot parameter line in grub.conf.
If using kickstart to install, and grub to boot, add something like this to %postinst to avoid frustration in the future.
There are some long lines that might be wrapped around by my mail reader, or your mail reader, so use a bit of common sense on what should be single line ;-)
%postinst #! /bin/sh
if [ -f /boot/grub/grub.conf ] then cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.dist sed -r 's/^([[:space:]]*kernel[[:space:]].*)[[:space:]]rhgb([[:space:]]?)/\1\2/' < grub.conf.dist > grub.conf fi
if [ -f /etc/lilo.conf ] then cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.dist sed -r -e 's/^([[:space:]]*append[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*"?.*)rhgb/\1/' -e 's/"[[:space:]]*/"/' -e 's/[[:space:]]*"/"/' < /etc/lilo.conf.dist > /etc/lilo.conf # does this file exist prior to posinst script? it should. should it? if grep -q '^bootloader.*useLilo' /root/anaconda-ks.cfg then /sbin/lilo fi fi
if grep -q '^id:5:initdefault:' /etc/inittab then cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.dist sed 's/^id:5:initdefault:/id:3:initdefault:/' < /etc/inittab.dist > /etc/inittab fi
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hinton" webmaster@ew3d.com Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:27 PM Subject: [CentOS] Rid me of this boot GUI
One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in text mode?
Same as on every other *nix system.... edit /etc/inittab and replace this:
id:5:initdefault:
with this:
id:3:initdefault:
Chris
Edit your /etc/inittab file and change your default runlevel to 3 from 5.
You can also just hit ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a text console.
jrw
John Hinton wrote:
One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders! Now, my KVM and 25 foot cord is just too long to send a GUI signal across the room and I'm missing 50% of the screen.. striped vertically.. at about 1/8th inch spacing. Not really good enough to see what I'm in nor what the crap I'm doing. I do see I guess an Xterm window.. so I guess I can issue commands.. or... maybe I'll have to drag over a derned monitor. Shew!!
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