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From: Jonathan Haws <Jonathan.Haws@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:26:32
Message-Id: 468EB9093DC44F4D9CBADE5C87BE5D19012182C2@cobra.usurf.usu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X by Galevsky
1 If you don't have any other use for the 'single' runlevel, you can use
2 the softlevel grub option (softlevel=single) to boot without X. It
3 works great for me.
4
5 Jonathan R. Haws
6 Jonathan.Haws@×××××××.edu
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9 -----Original Message-----
10 From: Galevsky [mailto:galevsky@×××××.com]
11 Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:34 AM
12 To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
13 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X
14
15 There is a "softlevel" option to add in your grub entry to switch to a
16 different RC.
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18 have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level
19
20 Gal'
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22 On Dec 18, 2007 5:16 PM, Yahya Mohammad <mfyahya@×××××.com> wrote:
23 > I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without
24 > starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel
25 parameter is
26 > passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but
27 > failed. Does the kernel have to be modified to do this? Thanks for any
28 > pointers.
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