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Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
C.4.2. Trouble With the Graphical LILO Screen on an x86-based System?
If, for some reason, you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so, as root, by editing
the
/etc/lilo.conf
First, as root, comment out (or delete) the line which reads
file. To comment out a line, insert the
/etc/lilo.conf
Next, rerun LILO by typing
appears, as used in previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.
You may re-enable the graphical boot screen by adding (or uncommenting) the above line back into
the
file and rerunning LILO.
lilo.conf
C.4.3. Booting into a Graphical Environment
If you have installed the X Window System but are not seeing a graphical desktop environment once
you log into your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, you can start the X Window System graphical
interface using the command
Once you enter this command and press [Enter], the graphical desktop environment is displayed.
Note, however, that this is just a one-time fix and does not change the log in process for future log ins.
To set up your system so that you can log in at a graphical login screen, you must edit one file,
, by changing just one number in the runlevel section. When you are finished, reboot
/etc/inittab
the computer. The next time you log in, you will have a graphical login prompt.
Open a shell prompt. If you are in your user account, become root by typing the
Now, type
gedit /etc/inittab
Within the first screen, a section of the file which looks like the following appears:
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#
0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
1 - Single user mode
#
2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#
3 - Full multiuser mode
#
4 - unused
#
5 - X11
#
6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:
To change from a console to a graphical login, you should change the number in the line
id:3:initdefault:
Warning
Change only the number of the default runlevel from
Your changed line should look like the following:
id:5:initdefault:
file and then rerunning LILO.
/sbin/lilo -v
.
startx
to edit the file with gedit. The file
from a
to a
.
3
5
message=/boot/message
character at the beginning of the line.
;
. The next time you boot, the text
to
.
3
5
prompt
LILO:
command.
su
will open.
/etc/inittab
75
in the
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