NVidia Debian thread

[Ken Moffat]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
>   
>> It is slightly more convenient on those rare occasions when I won't to
>> be able to startup in a fully active level with no Xserver just to be
>> able to select runlevel 3 (the RH way), but there are ways of doing
>> that on Debian as well.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> To disable gdm on boot in Debian, you can rename /etc/rc2.d/S21gdm to 
> /etc/rc2.d/s21gdm (lowercase s). (for some reason this only gives me one 
> console)
> What I did was go to /etc/rc5.d (random choice) and do the above rename, 
> then add a stanza to /boot/grub/menu.lst with a 5 at the end of the 
> kernel line, thereby giving me the default X and single options,  plus a 
> console option.
>
>   

Found out why. Debian /etc/inittab enables consoles 1 only in runlevels 
4 and 5, so change this procedure to runlevel3 (/etc/rc3.d) if you want 
more than one console.

Excerpt from inittab:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6