Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>   What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console,
>> not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of
>> interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not?
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>>   The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters.
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> Put gentoo=nox on the end of the VM's boot line at the boot loader.

Thanks to you both Adam and Dale. I found the nox keyword searching in
Google but couldn't figure out how to use it correctly. It does
exactly what I was looking for.

The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM
and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE
wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user
account added without stopping at the login like this.

Cheers,
Mark