[CentOS] Rid me of this boot GUI

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Tue Apr 19 22:34:31 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hinton" <webmaster at 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





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