I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John, I'm unclear if you are referring to the initial boot menu screen (I saw in later posts you are using LILO) being in graphics mode, or if you mean that you boot directly into the gnome or KDE desktop and would prefer to boot into a text-mode terminal session. If the latter, edit /etc/inittab as root and change the initdefault line to look like this:
id:3:initdefault:
You can accomplish the same thing using a GUI tool but I don't remember exactly what it is.
If you are referring to LILO, I figured out under Redhat at work that if look in /etc/lilo.conf (which is a symlink into /boot), you see the following line:
message=/boot/message
I simply changed this to
message=/boot/message.txt
and created that message.txt file to contain something like "Select a kernel to boot (<tab> or ? for list, <enter> for default)". If you bring the original /boot/message up in an editor, you'll see it has all sorts of ANSI sequences that generate the LILO graphic.
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