'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: > Frank Griffin skrev 4.4.2013 19:12: >> On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >>> Not much progress. My usual method of editing the kernel line to get >>> a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen. Failsafe >>> appears to be doing better - at least I can see messages. It reaches >>> >>> Reached target Multi-User >>> Reached target Graphical Interface >>> >>> and there it sticks. Does that give any clue as to what is failing, >>> and what I need to do to rescue the system? >>> >> Boot a rescue disk and mount your root partition. In >> /etc/systemd/system you should see a symlink like: >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 29 11:00 default.target -> >> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target >> >> Just remove this and re-symlink to /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target >> and you should get a level 3 boot. > > > It's actually easier than that. > > Add "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" on kernel / grub command line and > ith will boot to runlevel 3
Or simply add a "3" onto the command line as has been the case for many years :) Of course I should probably discourage that seeing as "3" is pretty meaningless in absolute terms these days! :) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/