How to boot Gentoo Linux in text mode

[Echa]

After the update of the Gentoo linux I think that I have lost the access of the keyboard and mouse in X. Now I want to boot the system in text mode so that I can easily troubleshoot the problem. Does anyone know how to do it in Gentoo. I have seen it in other Linux Distribution. So I am thinking the same here.

[Muwafaq]

What you are asking is to boot into level 3? Actually there are few ways to do that. In that the first one is edit /etc/inittab and reboot

# Default runlevel.id:3:initdefault:

The second method is in grub, pass the kernel option:

init=3

[KennedII]

This is not necessary. In order to boot in text mode, you can also specify the run level without altering the bootloader config file. Try to add ' 1' to the kernel options (number one). This will make the system to boot into runlevel 1 (single-user "fix it" mode). However if you make it to 3, it will boot into multi-user network mode.

[Christina 80]

Gentoo starts X Windows automatically, probably with the Gnome display manager (GDM), the K display manager (KDM), or the X display manager (XDM). On Gentoo systems run levels 2 through 5 are, by default, equal. Surely you have chosen during installation startup graphic runlevels 2 through 5 will begin with graphical login.

[AzzamKhan]

There are not many LiveCD without X server. The minimalCD gentoo contains just enough to install, but install an LFS or gentoo from a system already installed on HDD, it's more fun than a LiveCD, which is slower to load and use.