How to bootup to a command prompt.....EASY!

[Fred A. Miller]

On 08/30/2010 04:08 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 15:33 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>   
>> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> > > On 30 August 2010 20:07, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> If you want to bootup to a command prompt, remove the following lines
>>>> > >> from your /etc/init/gdm.conf file, and reboot. To get your GUI, run
>>>> > >> can use your Ubuntu boot CD to go to rescue and restore the file.
>>>>         
>>> > >
>>> > > I'm not sure what's the point of this. To get to a konsole, hit
>>> > > CTRL-ALT-F1. To restart the running X11 sessions, simply invoke "sudo
>>> > > /etc/init.d/gdm restart". If everything is stuck and you want a reboot
>>> > > in a reasonable harmless, follow the alt-sysreq+REISUB method.
>>>       
>> > 
>> > Fred's post was an interesting/entertaining way of creating the
>> > equivalent of a CentOS/Fedora/RHEL runlevel 3 default boot.
>>     
> THAT is one thing I miss. Just "init 3" and there you are. Clean, simple
> and easy peasy. Ric
>   

Yes......one thing I liked with openSuSE. I find it useful, and I'm sure
some
others will as well.

Fred

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