[gentoo-user] boot to console (text) mode

[Harry Putnam]

Sorry for the lamer question but apparently things have changed since
the days when putting default 3 in /etc/inittab would make the OS boot
to text (console) mode.

I'm running a vmappliance of gentoo-2008.0 from June and attempting to
bring it up to date.

Its setup to run xfce on boot.  Looking at the output of rc-update I
saw xdm set for boot.

Removed xdm from any runlevel and went to set inittab to default to
runlevel 3 but find it already is and has been 

  id:3:initdefault

But still on a reboot it goes to xfce desktop.
What have I overlooked?