How do I boot directly to a command-line?

[Unlimited]

I was recently playing around with KDE4, but decided it wasn't a good option for daily use on my netbook. I ran "yum groupremove" to get rid of it, and now upon reboot I'm greeted by neither KDM or GDM but a plain X Server login screen that doesn't actually log me in to anything. I'm pretty confident I could fix all of this if only I could get to a console log-in.

What do I need to pass to the kernel in grub to stop X from being started?

I've been searching around only for the past day and half, and some claim that I need only append "text" or "-s" or "S" to my boot option, others say you enter the runlevel you want such as "3". None of that has done anything, and now I've had to fix file system errors due to hard shutdowns (X Server apparently doesn't respond to ACPI shutdown signals by itself -_-)

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong before I actually break something?

[carpetfeller]

Can you Ctrl+Alt+F1((F2)(F3)) to open a new console terminal?

[scottro]

You can always boot, using the rescue CD (the original installation CD) and choosing rescue.

However, appending the "3" (without quotes) to the kernel line should have done it. You might also temporarily remove the rhgb quiet options, so that you can see if something is going wrong during boot.

It's possible that the new /etc/inittab changes have gotten intrusive to the point where they override boot options, but that seems unlikely. I think I would try to do the following.

When you get to the part where you can edit the kernel line, remove the rhgb quiet at the end, which should help you see what's going on during boot.

Then, allowing a space after the final word in the line, type "single" without quotes.

That should boot you into single user mode.

At that point, you should be able to edit /etc/inittab and change the default level 5 to 3. You have to change it, apparently, commenting out that line and putting in an identical line with 3 instead of 5 in it doesn't work anymore. (So I've heard, that's untested personally.)

Then, after editing it, if you type exit, you should be able to boot into runlevel three. If, after typing single at the kernel line doesn't work, though, then use my original suggestion of using the install CD, choosing the rescue option, and then, when it mounts the system under sysimage, go in there and make the suggested changes to /etc/inittab.

[JohnVV]

was Gnome installed along with kde.Or did you install with the fedora kde live cd
that is , is gnome installed or not