Heeeelp, my Fedora won't let me start in text mode

[Alex Snow]

I always did gdm then entered my username then enter then my password 
then enter. that's probably not the best way however.
On Mon, Nov 10, 
2003 at 06:45:38PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote:
> If one boots into a textual login and then needs to startup gnome. What
> is the command for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sina
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:46 AM
> To: Erik Heil; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Heeeelp, my Fedora won't let me start in text mode
> 
> 
> Yes, this advice is correct, but executing it isn't quite straight
> forward, regretably.
> 
> The problem is something called First Boot which doesn't follow the
> standard GUI convention on Linux which lets you go to a text console by
> pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc.).
> 
> So, you need to boot first into single user mode from whence you can:
> 
> chkconfig --level 0123456 firstboot off
> 
> At that point, you may start in a graphical logon screen, but you'll be
> able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console logon screen.
> 
> To go to single user mode:
> 
> 1.)	If using grub do 'a s' during the grub screen.
> 
> PS:	You've probably not made grub accessible, so this may be a bit
> hit and miss.
> 
> 2.)	If using lilo do:
> 
> [default.kernel.name] s
> 
> 
> Erik Heil writes:
> > From: "Erik Heil" <eheil at patmedia.net>
> > 
> > What you need to do is change the default runlevel the system boots 
> > into, and all should be fine.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Krister Ekstrom" <crisekstrom at bredband.net>
> > To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:46 AM
> > Subject: Heeeelp, my Fedora won't let me start in text mode
> > 
> > 
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> > > Hi  speakup,
> > >
> > >   I have just installed Fedora core 1.0 using the speakup enabled
> > >   boot-orig.iso disc. The installation went well, i can even boot
> from
> > >   the hard drive now, but unfortunately it seems it boots into a
> > >   graphical mode and i can't get a text console to start my Speakup,
> > >   if such a beast exists on my hard drive at the moment.
> > >   I'm at a loss as to what to do and so i ask the fedora users out
> > >   there for any assistance.
> > >   TIA
> > >
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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?