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Hello, My Fedora11 hangs on boot. I have no idea where or why it is hanging so I want to disable graphical boot. I booted the installation media, the root ...
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    Linux Newbie ursusca's Avatar
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    How do I disable graphical boot on Fedora11

    Hello,

    My Fedora11 hangs on boot. I have no idea where or why it is hanging so I want to disable graphical boot. I booted the installation media, the root file system mounted on /mnt, seted /mnt as my root with the chroot command and edited /etc/inittab, then unmounted and rebooted but it didn't help me. Is it possible to run gconf-editor under live cd and disable splash? How can I boot Fedora in single mode? For example use the following steps I'll be able to boot RHEL into single-user mode:
    At the GRUB splash screen at boot time, press any key to enter the GRUB interactive menu.
    Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the version of the kernel that you wish to boot and type a to append the line.
    Go to the end of the line and type single as a separate word (press the Spacebar and then type single ). Press Enter to exit edit mode.

    But what about Fedora?

    Thanks,

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    You have to edit kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf file. There is no need to chroot filesystem. Just boot up from LiveCD of any distro, mount root partition of Fedora and edit its grub.conf file.

    Remove splash and quiet keywords from grub.conf file.

    Switching to Single User Mode is same in Fedora and RHEL. Highlight Fedora title In GRUB Menu and press 'e'. Select 'kernel' line and press 'e' again. Add <space> 3 at the end of line and hit 'Enter' key. Press 'b' and Fedora will boot up in command line mode.
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    Hello,

    I am very thankful to you for your help. It was my fresh installation from Live CD so I decided reinstall Fedora 11 from DVD. Now it's OK

    Thanks,

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    I think my problem was because of ext4 file system. From Live CD I couldn't formated / file system as ext3 so I formated / ,/usr, /var and /tmp file systems as ext 4.

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