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Offline yong

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how to enter text mode when power on?
« on: April 30, 2009, 02:24:31 PM »
Hi,
     After I install TCL into my harddisk, I want to always start switch to text mode, not in GUI mode. I tried add text or superuser boot setting into menu.lst kernel config. but it always enter GUI mode, how should I config? Thanks.

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Re: how to enter text mode when power on?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 03:09:54 PM »
Could you post your menu.lst?
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Re: how to enter text mode when power on?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 04:27:08 PM »
My menulist as following.

default 0
timeout 10
title tinycore
kernel /boot/bzImage text quiet
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz

which didn't works. then I changed as following:

default 0
timeout 10
title tinycore
kernel /boot/bzImage superuser quiet
initrd /boot/tinycore.gz

but it still didn't work.

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Re: how to enter text mode when power on?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 04:37:31 PM »
Two things to try:

- first see if the command "showbootcodes" shows your arguments
- if they are shown, try putting the codes after "quiet"
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Re: how to enter text mode when power on?
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 05:31:29 PM »
Thanks. it works.  ;)
I have to put after quiet argument.