On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:11:18AM -0500, Trey Gruel wrote: > 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
This is simply wrong. In Debian runlevels 2-5 are identical by default. Stopping the Display manager is a FAQ, there are several ways of doing it, including deinstalling it apt-get remove [x|g|k]dm or removing the startup scripts by the command update-rc.d, see man update-rc.d -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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