stupid boot question

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 23:40, John (EBo) David wrote:
> 
> Got an old box that I installed a new version of RH on...  The monitor
> def is off and I need to:
> 
> 1) force it to boot ascii, and 
> 2) where does one turn on/*off* the graphical login?
> 
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edit one of the lines in grub before booting - or control-X in lilo and
tell it 'linux 3'

or boot as normal - press Control-Alt-2 to get a text console login -
tell it runlevel 3.

change /etc/inittab to be run level 3 as default if desired

Craig