I don't remember the beginning of the thread, but your machine is 
booting into X and you want it to boot to console until you get the X 
business working?

Since you said woody, you mean debian, which presumably means you are 
booting into runlevel 2 which runs XDM/GDM/KDM.  Same for runlevel 3 as 
it turns out (as I recall).

So, to keep it from booting directly into X:
1.) Let it boot like normal
2.) Once you have broken X running switch to console (CTRL+ALT+F2)
3.) Log in as root
4.) type "runlevel" to see what runlevel you are in
5.) cd to /etc/rc#.d/ where # is the runlevel from above
6.) delete any links to things like S80xdm or S82gdm or S84kdm
     (what numbers they are doesn't matter just the ?dm part)
7.) check /etc/rcS.d for the same guys and remove

Basically I cant remember where they were because I deleted them :)

There might be some nifty debianesque way of accomplishing this, but I 
am new to debian so I am not familiar with the installation tools 
specific to it.

Austin


Rob Wultsch wrote:
> None of the suggest solutions have been succesful.
> ctrl + alt + F2 = what appears to be a console (there is less 
> jibberish)... but not running at the same frequency as my monitor
> linux 3 (or Linux 3) with lilo = x starts up anyways
> 
> It is about time for the windows solution... (where the hell is my Woody 
> disc 1?)
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