----- 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

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