Booting into text mode

[veddox]

Hi all,

I would like to add an option to my GRUB boot screen that will boot up Ubuntu, but without showing the Plymouth boot screen or launching LightDM/Unity. All it should do is drop me in a tty shell. (Of course, I would like to keep the standard option - launch with graphics - too.) Unfortunately, I have no clue how to go about that - any pointers?

Thanks in advance!

[sudodus]

Copy a menuentry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for 'graphical boot'

menuentry .... {
...
}

to the end of the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom

remove splash from the linux line, add text to that line instead, save the file and run

sudo update-grub

[veddox]

Great! Thanks a lot, sudodus! I didn't think it would be that easy

Problem solved.

[sudodus]

You are welcome