CentOS 5 change runlevel at boot time

I was having some troubles with my new monitor on an old server. The damn thing would only boot into Graphics Mode, but the monitor did not like the resolution and I could do nothing.

So I had to change my run level from Graphics Mode to Text Mode. Here's a link with that info.


I'll also paste it in here.


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Under Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it is possible to change the default runlevel at boot time.

To change the runlevel of a single boot session, use the following instructions:

• When the GRUB menu bypass screen appears at boot time, press any key to enter the GRUB menu (within the first three seconds).

• Press the a key to append to the kernel command.

• Add at the end of the boot options line to boot to the desired runlevel. For example, the following entry would initiate a boot process into runlevel 3:

                grub append> ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet 3
            

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The is replaced by the level you would like to boot into. Just replace it with the runlelvel number or you can s