[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at gmail.com> 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.

You're welcome. That's KMS for you; your consoles no longer are "pure
text." CentOS 6 might be like that too given that F13 was (I can't
remember whether F12 was).