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From: David Finkel <dfinkel1@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:51:35
Message-Id: 20071219124549.BIK31404@po2.mail.umd.edu
1 You should just be able to pass the nox kernel
2 command line option at boot, the xdm init script,
3 from baselayout, contains a line which checks the
4 kernel command line for the xdm parameter.
5
6 -David
7
8 ---- Original message ----
9
10 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:16:00 +0400
11 From: Yahya Mohammad <mfyahya@×××××.com>
12 Subject: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X
13 To: Gentoo mailing list
14 <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
15
16 >I want to add a grub menu entry that will load
17 the system without
18 >starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the
19 'nox' kernel parameter is
20 >passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out
21 how that's done but
22 >failed. Does the kernel have to be modified to do
23 this? Thanks for any
24 >pointers.
25 >--
26 >gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
27 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Booting up without X Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>