On Thursday 16 December 2010 18:31:46 Bob Proulx wrote: > Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > > 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 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 > > Note that the above isn't going to boot without X on a default Debian > Lenny system unless you have changed it. By default on Debian all > runlevels are configured the same. There isn't anything magical about > runlevel 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. By default they are all the same. > > You can as a local admin configure them to be different but unless you > have done so then booting runlevel 3 won't be any different than > booting the default runlevel 2. X will start the same. > > The traditional solution would be to boot single user mode with S or > 'single' and make corrections from there. Alternatively you can > disable gdm/kdm/xdm temporarily and then reboot to the full system > which will then be a text console.
Once we are thinking in terms of run-level by number, why not just use "1" (without the quotation marks!) which on a Debian system is the CLI? Or, of course, choose single user in GRUB. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012191553.41467.lisi.re...@gmail.com
