Tuesday, September 20, 2011

How To boot into text mode in linux fedora

Power on computer  when bios info shows up on the screen press F2 or F3, the GRUB boot screen appears.
Select the Fedora that you want to boot into, Press the a key boot kernel argument will show up. in the end of the argument string add '3'

    Original argument
  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet

 
    after modified in the end of arguments add a 3
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 root=LABEL=/ acpi=on rhgb quiet 3

  and press enter to be continue
   the number 3 will cause fedora boot into text mode.







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