Hello, I searched it and turned up to be pretty simple.
It's just needed to append the runlevel number to the kernel line, something like this example: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=/dev/sda2 ro 3 Thanks, Juan 2010/12/16 <teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net> > > You can instruct the OS to boot into a diffrent run level by editing the > kernel line before you boot it in grub. It will affect only that boot. > > I don't have the comand syntex infront of me, but a google for it should > produce the info. > > ------------------------------ > *From: * Juan Ignacio Gaudio <jgau...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:06:31 +0100 > *To: *<debian-user@lists.debian.org> > *Subject: *Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process > > Hello, > > I broke my X (again) trying to install a graphics device driver on my > Vostro 1000, so now I don't have video and the keyboard does not respond. > > I just need to be able to change to a console tty and restore the previous > xorg.conf. But as X starts automatically I can't manage to do that before X > crashes and I lose the keyboard again... do you know of a way of changing > the runlevel to just console (no X) or aborting X startup during Linux boot > process (some key combination or anything). > > I'm running Debian Lenny. > > Thanks! > >
