[WBEL-users] New install after up2date no keyboard

[Luke Scharf]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:01, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > kernel /vmliknuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/
> 
> at this point ... just use a SPACE and the number 3 after the label ...
> it would look like this:
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ 3
> 
> That will put you in character based mode.

It's worth pointing out that this is great for a 1-time boot, but if you
want the system to come up in text mode all of the time, the usual way
is to edit the ":initdefault:" in /etc/inittab.

-Luke