Once you boot into GUI you can login as root or login as a user and once in a terminal window su - to root and then change the line in /etc/inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: You can also do init 3 after saving the change to see what will happen before rebooting. This will keep the GUI login from being run and boot all enabled console screens and leave you at a character login. The way to boot without any services as needed is to login as root or become root with su - once the system is booted into runlevel 3 or 5 and do init 1 or telinit 1. This will put the system in single user runlevel and shut off all services similar to rescue mode. This would only allow you work from the console until you changed back to runlevel 3 or 5. _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of ABBAS KHAN Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:46 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line 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? Thanks. Best. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080818/17d4bbdb/attachment-0005.html>