Changing boot mode to text mode

[Alok]

When I load Linux, the graphical screen comes up and freezes. I think that maybe - just maybe if I change the boot screen to a text LILO, then maybe it wont freeze. So far I have to boot off the boot disk for it to work.

But when I try to change it to text mode in the Mandrake 8 control Center. I click Boot - Boot Config - Configure - and then choose LILO with text menu. Then I restart and it is graphical. I go back to Mandrake Control Center and it is like the thing never happened. It is still stuck on LILO with graphical boot, and refuses to change!!

-What do i do???
:confused: Alok

[Gaccm]

here is a way that is kinda unfriendly,
go into the directory that is loaded when the distro loads (i use deiban, and it has mulitple directories, /etc/rc[1-6&S].d)
and find any files that are called S??xdm (the question marks are numbers, they arn't important, but keep them the same numbers anyway)
and rename is to s??xdm, or better yet, move it to some other directory [so you save the numbers]

What this does, is that when the comp boots, it will try to open xdm [the thing that goes into graphical mode on boot up] but there will be no shortcut for it to open, so it cant.

[Craig McPherson]

Display Managers load in one of two ways:

1. Through /etc/inittab

2. Through init scripts.

/etc/inittab is the correct way, because display managers are interactive programs, but some display managers don't know that.

If the display manager loads from /etc/inittab, you'll need edit /etc/inittab and stop it from loading. If it starts from an init script, you'll need to disable that init script like normal.