[lubuntu-users] About booting Focal-Fossa to text mode
Harry Putnam
reader at newsguy.com
Tue Dec 17 20:57:22 UTC 2019
Nio Wiklund <wiklund.olle at gmail.com>
writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
>> What else do I need to do for that to happen?
Nio Writes:
> Hi Harry,
>
> I think what else you need is to tweak systemd as described in the
> following link,
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/854013/how-to-boot-to-text-only-mode-problem-with-laptop-with-nvidia-gpu/854026#854026
>
>
> If your desktop uses systemd, and I am rather sure it does (Ubuntu
> 15.04 or later), there is one additional step needed. That is to
> change the default target from "graphical" target to "multi-user"
> target. Skip this step if your desktop does not use systemd.
>
> sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
>
> At this point, your desktop should boot into the command line when you
> reboot it.
>
Thanks Nio
After experimenting a bit and reading some more . . . . I posted a
followup on to my original question on Dec 15th, mentioning most of
what you discus. ... I must have posted soon after your Dec 14 post
which I only saw today
Maybe you missed it:
> From: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
> Subject: Re: About booting Focal-Fossa to text mode
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.ubuntu.lubuntu.user
> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:16:59 -0500 (1 day, 22 hours, 28 minutes ago)
> Message-ID: <87a77ti690.fsf at local.lan>
>
[...]
Harry continues:
> But the true all important thing to do is something unrelated to
> /etc/default/grub
>
> use systemctl to set up boot to multi-user mode which is another way
> of saying `text mode'.
>
> as root
> systemctl set-default multi-user.target
>
> Which creates this symlink:
> /etc/systemd/system/default.target → /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target
>
> In fact just the above command alone without editing grub will cause
> bootup to revert to text mode right at point where login comes up.
>
> However the boot messages etc will still be blanked out by the splash
> screen
>
> do the /etc/default/grub edits and
>
> systemctl set-default multi-user.target
>
> Will let you see boot messages and end up in a text terminal...
>
> when ready you can call `startx' to enter into graphica mode
Thanks the further discussion
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