On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:16 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without > starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is > passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but > failed. Does the kernel have to be modified to do this? Thanks for any > pointers.
I don't know what the livecd does but you certainly don't have to modify a kernel to do something like that. The way I see it there are two possible solutions: 1. Create a new runlevel, say "nox" and just don't put xdm in the runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain another runlevel. 2. Edit /etc/init.d/xdm (or better yet, make a copy of your own and edit it) that simply checks for the existence of, say "nox" in /proc/cmdline and exit immediately if so. Then change your grub config as appropriate. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
