[olug] Lilo fixed

[Nick Walter]

Hmmm, I'm not sure what you mean by boot up in text mode.  If you are
wanting to avoid X windows and go right to a console login, I'd suggest
booting to runlevel 3 and making sure nothing in your inittab or startup
scripts is starting X.  I know in Red Hat if you boot to runlevel 5 you end
up in X due to X being started in the inittab for runlevel 5.  You can edit
the default runlevel in your /etc/inittab file.  It's the line that looks
like:

id:3:initdefault:

The number after 'id:' is what runlevel you are booting to by default.
Don't ever set this to 6 or 0.

If you mean avoiding the higher resolution console display modes, just
remove the vga=788 line from your lilo.conf.

Nick Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: mesc [mailto:mesc]On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:56 PM
To: OLUG
Subject: [olug] Lilo fixed


I finally got my LILO working right by adding the word linear to my
/etc/lilo.conf file like so>

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
linear
default=windows
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=150
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hdb5
        append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet"
        vga=788
        read-only
other=/dev/hda1
        label=windows
        table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
        label=floppy
        unsafe
now can anyone tell me how to get it to boot up in the text mode instead
of the graphical mode?It's driving me crazy :)

                Gary



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