On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Silvester van der Bijl wrote: > Please help, > > I just installed debian, compiled a custom kernel and tried to reboot > the system. > > Everything works great, except X starts up. Since I didn't configure X > yet I get a garbled screen. I tried to exit by pressing > ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE, but it seems it restarts every time. > > Does anyone now how to disable or abort the graphical login manager so I > can first configure it ?
check your /etc/inittab. it probably is setting you to runlevel 5 (xdm) with a line that looks like: id:5:initdefault: to boot up without x, change it to runlevel 3: id:3:initdefault: -- trey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
