command prompt

[Justin Bennett]

Wasn't sure if you meant all the time or just on one boot, say for 
maintance.

If you want to do it only on a particular boot, and not all the time you 
must pass the runlevel 3 (or 1 for maintanance mode) to the kernel from 
the boot loader.

it depends on which boot loader you using for this.

for lilo hit ctrl-x to get to the lilo prompt and type

linux 1


or linux 3 depending on which runlevel you want.  1 is maintanace which 
doens't require a password, it logs you in as root, few services 
started, 3 is command line with full network, ect.



For Grub it's a little trickier
see:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

you should be able to replace 'single' with '3'


Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



On 8/3/2005 11:39 AM, Eric Benoit wrote:

> Does anyone know how to force a linux computer to boot into a command 
> line promt without x starting?