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!! > > Thanks, > John Hinton > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos