switching to text mode during boot

jeanluc · External Since: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 1

I am experiencing severe graphical display problem during boot up of
RHEL4. (Virtual PC does not support 24bit... need to change to 16bit)

Postings on the web seem to indicate that if I press alt+space_bar I
can switch to text mode.

This does not work.

cntrl-alt-F3 does not work either.

Does anybody know how to switch during the boot up process to boot up
in Text mode?

thanks!

Allen Kistler · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 367

jeanluc wrote:
> I am experiencing severe graphical display problem during boot up of
> RHEL4. (Virtual PC does not support 24bit... need to change to 16bit)
>
> Postings on the web seem to indicate that if I press alt+space_bar I
> can switch to text mode.
>
> This does not work.
>
> cntrl-alt-F3 does not work either.
>
> Does anybody know how to switch during the boot up process to boot up
> in Text mode?

# vi /etc/grub.conf
delete the line that says "hiddenmenu"
delete the "quiet" and "rhgb" options on the kernel lines

# rpm -e rhgb

Doing the above things stops Red Hat from hiding anything from you.