From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 23:04:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C3C16A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao02.cox.net (fed1mtao02.cox.net [68.6.19.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23A943D1F for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnavarre@cox.net) Received: from reichlieu.lan ([68.6.193.140]) by fed1mtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040224070444.TBHA7091.fed1mtao02.cox.net@reichlieu.lan>; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:04:44 -0500 Received: from reichlieu.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reichlieu.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1O74id3020075; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:04:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnavarre@reichlieu.lan) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reichlieu.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i1O74gJn020074; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:04:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnavarre) From: Matt Navarre To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:04:42 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <403AECC9.4080101@icare.com.hk> <20040224062206.GA92824@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040224062206.GA92824@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402232304.42770.mnavarre@cox.net> cc: Dan Nelson cc: Stephen Liu Subject: Re: How to switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:04:47 -0000 On Monday 23 February 2004 22:22, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 24), Stephen Liu said: > > 5.2 > > == > > > > Kindly advise the key combination switching between INIT 3 and INIT 5 > > > > Ctrl + Alt + F2 = INIT 3/Text mode (works) > > Ctrl + Alt + F7 = INIT 5/Graphic mode (does not work) > > FreeBSD does not have "init" levels. You've got off, single-user, and > multi-user. As Dan said, FreeBSD does not have init levels but you can switch to a text console from X-windows Ctrl + Alt + F[1-8] will all take you to a login prompt, Ctrl + Alt + F9 will take you back to X-Windows. Note that X must be running for this to work, otherwise you'll just have text consoles available. The number of consoles is configurable somewhere, I just can't remember where. > > > and the method switching to multi-user-mode from single-user-mode > > instead of rebooting PC To go to single-user do 'shutdown now' as root, It'll ask you for a path to a shell or you can hit enter for /bin/sh > > Exit the single-user shell, and the system will bring itself to > multi-user mode automatically. -- mnavarre@cox.net it was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. - jwz