How do I boot into text mode, without X?

[BoBB]

No you type whatever your linux kernel label is, if you normally boot "linux" you would boot "linux 3" but since your running debian even runlevel 2 has *dm in it, you have to boot into runlevel 1 and remove it from at least runlevel 2 and then boot into runlevel 2 for a text login, yuou can also remove it from everything except 5 and use 5 as a grpahical login as most distro's do. I never understood why deb did it the way it does.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:29:42 -0700
"Mark Berkwitt" <mberkwitt@cox.net> wrote:

> Thanks for trying to help, BoBB.
> Unfortunately, when I try "boot: level 3" I get the reply
> "Could not find kernel image: level"
> 
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> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:57:31 -0700
> "Mark Berkwitt" <mberkwitt@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm searching through the index of my copy of "Running LINUX" 3rd Ed. and
> > can't find how to boot: into level 3 (I think that's right) thus avoiding
> X.
> 
> Depends on your distro, most of the "big" distro's stick to having run level
> 5 as the graphic login runlevel. what you would want to do at the lilo
> prompt is type 'linux 3'(or whatever the label is for your kernel) to boot
> to runlevel 3. If you want to boot into run level 3 by default edit
> /etc/inittab look for a like like this
> 
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> and change 5 to 3. Im not to sure on the facts but i heard you shouldn't
> change anything else in this file unless you know exactly what your doing.
> maybee someone more experienced can put in thier $.02 :)
> 
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