[lubuntu-users] About booting Focal-Fossa to text mode

[Harry Putnam]

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>
 >  

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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