CentOS - Apr 2005 - Rid me of this boot GUI

One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!

Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in 
text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders! 
Now, my KVM and 25 foot cord is just too long to send a GUI signal 
across the room and I'm missing 50% of the screen.. striped vertically.. 
at about 1/8th inch spacing. Not really good enough to see what I'm in 
nor what the crap I'm doing. I do see I guess an Xterm window.. so I 
guess I can issue commands.. or... maybe I'll have to drag over a derned 
monitor. Shew!!

Thanks,
John Hinton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John Hinton
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:27 PM
> To: CentOS at caosity.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Rid me of this boot GUI
> 
> One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console
in
> text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders!
> Now, my KVM and 25 foot cord is just too long to send a GUI signal
> across the room and I'm missing 50% of the screen.. striped
vertically..
> at about 1/8th inch spacing. Not really good enough to see what I'm in
> nor what the crap I'm doing. I do see I guess an Xterm window.. so I
> guess I can issue commands.. or... maybe I'll have to drag over a
derned
> monitor. Shew!!

Edit /etc/inittab. Change your default runlevel from X11 to Full
multiuser mode. (5 to 3).

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Marc

Am Mi, den 20.04.2005 schrieb John Hinton um 0:27:
> One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in 
> text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders! 
> John Hinton
Remove "rhgb" from kernel boot parameter line in grub.conf.

Alexader

P.S. You should rethink the way you express yourself. Whom do you blame?


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hinton" <webmaster at ew3d.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: [CentOS] Rid me of this boot GUI

> One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the 
> console in text mode?
Same as on every other *nix system.... edit /etc/inittab and replace this:

id:5:initdefault:

with this:

id:3:initdefault:

Chris

Edit your /etc/inittab file and change your default runlevel to 3 from 5.

You can also just hit ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a text console.

jrw

John Hinton wrote:
> One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in 
> text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed winders! 
> Now, my KVM and 25 foot cord is just too long to send a GUI signal 
> across the room and I'm missing 50% of the screen.. striped
vertically..
> at about 1/8th inch spacing. Not really good enough to see what I'm in 
> nor what the crap I'm doing. I do see I guess an Xterm window.. so I 
> guess I can issue commands.. or... maybe I'll have to drag over a
derned
> monitor. Shew!!
> 
> Thanks,
> John Hinton
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 20.04.2005 schrieb John Hinton um 0:27:
> 
> 
>>One of these days, RedHat might actually run me off!!!! AAAARGH!!!!
>>
>>Can anyone tell me how to get CentOS 4 to simply boot to the console in 
>>text mode? If I wanted a stinkin' GUI I would have installed
winders!
> 
> 
>>John Hinton
> 
> 
> Remove "rhgb" from kernel boot parameter line in grub.conf.
If using kickstart to install, and grub to boot, add something like this 
to %postinst to avoid frustration in the future.

There are some long lines that might be wrapped around by my mail 
reader, or your mail reader, so use a bit of common sense on what should 
be single line ;-)

%postinst
#! /bin/sh

if [ -f /boot/grub/grub.conf ]
then
    cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.dist
    sed -r 
's/^([[:space:]]*kernel[[:space:]].*)[[:space:]]rhgb([[:space:]]?)/\1\2/'
< grub.conf.dist > grub.conf
fi

if [ -f /etc/lilo.conf ]
then
    cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.dist
    sed -r -e 
's/^([[:space:]]*append[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*"?.*)rhgb/\1/' -e 
's/"[[:space:]]*/"/' -e 's/[[:space:]]*"/"/'
< /etc/lilo.conf.dist >
/etc/lilo.conf
    # does this file exist prior to posinst script? it should. should it?
    if grep -q '^bootloader.*useLilo' /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
    then
       /sbin/lilo
    fi
fi

if grep -q '^id:5:initdefault:' /etc/inittab
then
    cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.dist
    sed 's/^id:5:initdefault:/id:3:initdefault:/' < /etc/inittab.dist
>
/etc/inittab
fi

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