[WBEL-users] cannot restart to runlevel 3

[William Hooper]

Timothy Nash said:
> I'm running CentOS-3.3 (and Whitebox) as a VMWare guest OS on a Windows
> 2K Server.  VMWare Tools requires non-gui mode in order to install, so I
> issue either "telinit 3" or "init 3" in a term window and it starts to
> reboot in "text" mode.  However, it consistenly hangs right after the line
> which states, "Starting automount:No mount points defined (ok)".   I  just
> have a blinking cursor and have to reboot the machine to recover.  Anyone
> experience this problem or know the proper trouble shooting steps to take?
>  Thanks!  :-)

Are you sure that isn't just the end of the sequence?  Linux doesn't need
to "reboot" to change run levels.

Try just hitting enter.  Or better yet append a "3" to the boot line in
grub instead of going to runlevel 5 first.

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William Hooper