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Booting to Console
Name: Johnny Blaze Date: May 20, 2003 at 13:56:41 Pacific OS: Red Hat 7.2 CPU/Ram: 1800+/512
Comment:
I have a dual boot system with RH 7.2 and Win xp. For some reason I cannot get to the GDE with Redhat. I have tried changing the /etc/inittab/ file to set the default runlevel to 5, I have tried to start the GDE by running initx and also tried ctrl-alt-f7. None of these have worked. The GDE used to work, but for some reason since I made changes to my home network, I can only access the console screen. Please help.
Name: norbert Date: May 20, 2003 at 19:47:18 Pacific
Reply:
try adding to your kernel options init 5, or init=5. Depends on the kernel, one of them will log you directly into X. The other option is to log in on the console, and then run startx. Hope that helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: frink36 Date: May 21, 2003 at 13:26:33 Pacific
Reply:
It should be Runlevel 4. :)
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: May 22, 2003 at 08:46:59 Pacific
Reply:
Default runlevels: 3=text 5=GUI.
4 is sometimes used for auto user logon to a GUI and by some distros for X, but for the majority is it unused.
What error do you get when running "startx" from a console?
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Response Number 4
Name: Joshua Date: May 23, 2003 at 02:25:28 Pacific
Reply:
type in linuxconf and make changes to boot menu. Theres an option if you want to log in automatically to GUI.
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