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).