You should look in /etc/inittab and change the run level to 3 (from 5) Change this line id:5:initdefault: to this id:3:initdefault: This will give you a true text mode startup. P. Phil Savoie wrote: >On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:13, Scott Heisler wrote: > > >>I'm wanting my Centos 4.0 box to boot up into TEXT mode, like all of my >>other Linux servers do. Unfortunately, it only boots into graphics >>mode and there's some issue with the keyboard (it controls the mouse, >>very poorly). I can SSH into the box so I can re-config it.. But just >>don't know where to look in this new version. I tried GRUB.CONF and >>even the SYSTEM_CONFIG programs.. No luck. >> >>Thanks. >> >>Scott >> >> > >Hi Scott > >As root you can go into the file /etc/sysconfig/init and look for the line >that says GRAPHICAL=yes and change the yes to a no. > >You should be good to go from there. > >Hope this helps, > >Phil >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >