Like to start up at tty console instead of X windows

[Mike]

Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/06/19 23:22 (GMT-0700) Richard E Miles apparently typed:
> 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.

This is exactly what I needed (but couldn't get working) this 
past weekend when I installed Feisty in my daughter's 
computer. After the install was fully completed and customized 
to her liking, we changed out her video adapter from an ATI to 
nVidia to get 3D acceleration working properly. Coming 
recently from OpenSUSE, I was trying to start feisty in "init 
3" from the grub menu but couldn't figure out where to put the 
request.

At this point, after reading this thread, I understand that 
"init 3" would not have worked anyway. It was very simple in 
OpenSUSE, just enter "init 3" at the kernel options prompt. 
Even booting into recovery mode in Feisty didn't work for us. 
I kept getting errors while booting. I ended up re-installing 
everything for her and now it's up and running but it would 
have been much easier to be able to boot without xserver 
running and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".

Where exactly in the grub menu would you append the "1" to 
boot into text mode only (no xserver) for a one time 
occasional need?

Thanks!