I would like to boot to runlevel 5 (X Windows), however, to speed up boot, I want the boot process to occur in text mode. (up until the point when X server starts for gdm). how can i do it thanks i

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc; this question has almost nothing to do with X.] On 2007-09-12, Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote: > Ignoramus3635 <ignoramus3635@NOSPAM.3635.invalid> wrote: >>I would like to boot to runlevel 5 (X Windows), however, to speed up >>boot, I want the boot process to occur in text mode. (up until the >>point when X server starts for gdm). > > That is exactly what it does. You'd like to think that, but that's not entirely true. I know that at least CentOS (who must have gotten it from RHEL) has a graphics-based boot screen, IIRC soon after the kernel passes control off to init. You can still see the console messages in an xterm-like window, but the graphics are still there. (They're very simple graphics, so changing to a console boot till gdm takes over isn't going to decrease boot time significantly, except possibly on very old hardware.) --keith -- kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:13:37 -0700, steve_schefter@hotmail.com <steve_schefter@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 12, 2:21 pm, fl...@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote: >> The console does "simple graphics" in text mode. That >> is probably what you are seeing. It has nothing to do >> with X. All you need is a font that provides "graphic" >> characters instead of "text" characters, and of course >> just exactly such a font is almost always loaded! Few >> programs bother to switch to the alternate character set, >> but they can. > > It is common these days to involve a high res screen for the > boot process. No, it isn't X but it is indeed high res as the OP > was reporting, not just simple ASCII characters to generate an > image. > > To the OP: have you tried adding "text" to the boot options? > This sounds about right, I will give it a try in 40 minutes. i