Default to runlevel 3 on boot.

Benjamin Franz snowhare at nihongo.org
Thu Nov 16 04:30:43 UTC 2006


On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Art Fore wrote:

> How do I set Fedora FC6 to boot into runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. This
> machine will be used as a server and does not need X.

The simplest way is edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add a ' 3 ' to the 
kernel parameters for the kernel you normally boot.

The other way to do it is to edit /etc/inittab and change the line reading

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

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Benjamin Franz

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