On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, ABBAS KHAN <bashukhan at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi fellows, > > Pretty new to CentOS. > I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of GUI > (or without loading any services). > Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the screen at > mounting and doing fstab and doesn't proceed further. > Is there anyother way to boot CentOS into command prompt without using > Rescue option from the installation CD? You can change to multi-processing command line mode with 'init 3' and single user mode with the command 'init 1'. Modes can be changed dynamically in a running system. See the file /etc/inittab, it lists all the possible modes, the first line of this file defines the default mode: id:5:initdefault: which defaults to running the GUI at boot, change it to: id:3:initdefault: to not run the GUI at boot. Brett