How do I boot to a command prompt in 10.04?

[eddyjackson]

Is it possible to prevent X from starting on boot and just give me a CLI?

[akand074]

Umm Ctrl+Alt+F1 should bring you right into the command line on boot. Also you can try this:


sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

or edit the /etc/inittab file to boot into CLI instead of your desktop environment. Though I don't know very much on the topic.

[eddyjackson]

Thanks for the tips, but "sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove" doesn't work in recent versions and I don't even have a /etc/inittab file.

The only thing I've been able to do is comment out the following line from the /etc/init/gdm.conf file:


exec gdm-binary $CONFIG_FILE

It still seems to start X, and display an ubuntu splash screen. I wish I could figure out how to stop it before that and just have it dump me to a console login.

[akand074]

Thanks for the tips, but "sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove" doesn't work in recent versions and I don't even have a /etc/inittab file.

The only thing I've been able to do is comment out the following line from the /etc/init/gdm.conf file:


exec gdm-binary $CONFIG_FILEIt still seems to start X, and display an ubuntu splash screen. I wish I could figure out how to stop it before that and just have it dump me to a console login.

oh what about this:


sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

and find this:


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”

change it to this


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text”

then


sudo update-grub

let me know how that works.

[eddyjackson]

Thank you! That worked smashingly.