booting without 'x'

[israelc]

can I start ubuntu 11/04 in monitor only. If yes how can I login, and use some administrations without 'X'
Shall be grateful for any help

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

If you don't need to do it a lot, press e when your grub menu comes up, arrow down to the vmlinuz line and remove all the options back to and including quiet splash. Type a 3. Press CTRL+X and should should boot up to the command line login

[EDIT - see below]

Don't put a 3, put "text" (no quotes)

[End of EDIT]

[Krytarik]

Jose Catre-Vandis's suggestion only disables the Plymouth boot splash and makes the output during the boot process visible.

See here on how to boot into the CLI instead of running GDM:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...18#post9644518

And yes, you can of course log in there and work on the command line.

Greetings.

[sisco311]

See here on how to boot into the CLI instead of running GDM:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...18#post9644518

That method does not work in Natty.

@OP:

You can disable GDM with the following command:

echo "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/gdm.override

The splash screen can cause some problems, so I would suggest you to disable it. Edit the /etc/default/grub file and replace the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet". Then generate a new Grub2 config file:

sudo update-grub

If you want to start an X session from the virtual console, simply run:

startx

or start GDM:

sudo service gdm start

If you want to re-enable GDM, then simply remove the .override file:

sudo rm /etc/init/gdm.override

[Krytarik]

That method does not work in Natty.

Ok, I didn't know that until now.
Thanks for dropping by!

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Jose Catre-Vandis's suggestion only disables the Plymouth boot splash and makes the output during the boot process visible.

See here on how to boot into the CLI instead of running GDM:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...18#post9644518

And yes, you can of course log in there and work on the command line.

Greetings.

Agreed, my mistake. What I should have said is "text" (no quotes) instead of 3

[Krytarik]

Agreed, my mistake. What I should have said is "text" (no quotes) instead of 3

No matter, since it eventually turned out that were both wrong, apparently.