Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[Richard E Miles]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:12:43 -0400
Felix Miata <mrmazda at ij.net> wrote:

> On 2007/06/19 23:22 (GMT-0700) Richard E Miles apparently typed:
> 
> > I would like to start ubuntu feisty faun and have it run at run level 3 rather than starting on the X server. Is there a way to have it start at run level 3.
> > I am new to ubuntu. My previous distro was Centos 4.5. On that system there was an /etc/inittab to set the start up run level. But on ubuntu this file does not exist. I would greatly appreciate any help on this issue.
> 
> The "runlevel system" employed by Debians annoys me greatly. I have yet to bother to find out how to prevent X from starting in *buntu, but in Feisty as a workaround I put aliases into my
> /root/.bashrc to make starting and stopping X less of a PITA:
> 
> alias Xoff='/etc/init.d/kdm stop'
> alias Xon='/etc/init.d/kdm start'
> 
> When I need a vc, which is about as often as not, I simply switch from X with Ctrl-Alt-Fx. To start or stop X as to test configuration changes I use the aliases. In order to prevent X from even
> starting on a boot you can append single or 1 to the kernel line in grub, as when you have horribly broken X and need to try to fix it before letting it try to start.
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Please see Peter Garretts suggestion. I did what he said and I now start at a terminel.


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Richard Miles
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