[gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:40 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? Add gentoo=nox to the kernel parameters. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 23:40:55 Mark Knecht wrote: I found the nox keyword searching in Google but couldn't figure out how to use it correctly. It does exactly what I was looking for. I define a separate run-level for no-x*, which doesn't contain xdm and also omits various other things

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht wrote: What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? With rc_interactive=YES in /etc/rc.conf (with baselayout2, I'm not sure how that was