[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

[Craig White]

On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:47 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> Ron Blizzard wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line.
>>> 
>>> To boot into "everything but X", you can append "text" to the kernel
>>> (grub1) or linux (grub2) line in the grub configuration.
>> 
>> Okay, thanks. Good to know. I forget what "kludging" process I had to
>> go through to get Mint to boot into text, I think I disabled the X
>> server somehow.  But even when I got to text mode,  the Nouveau driver
>> had loaded, which is why I eventually had to blacklist it before
>> installing the proprietary nVidia driver.
> 
> Or edit /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3, or just init 3 from the
> command line (which you can reach via <ctrl><alt>-f1) or I think you can
> append 3 to the kernel line....
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those days will be over soon as even fedora has now switched to upstart

CentOS 7 (based on upstream 7) will be a vastly different beast

Craig