How to bootup to a command prompt.....EASY!

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 15:33 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
>>> On 30 August 2010 20:07, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>>>> If you want to bootup to a command prompt, remove the following lines
>>>> from your /etc/init/gdm.conf file, and reboot. To get your GUI, run
>>>> can use your Ubuntu boot CD to go to rescue and restore the file.
>>> I'm not sure what's the point of this. To get to a konsole, hit
>>> CTRL-ALT-F1. To restart the running X11 sessions, simply invoke "sudo
>>> /etc/init.d/gdm restart". If everything is stuck and you want a reboot
>>> in a reasonable harmless, follow the alt-sysreq+REISUB method.
>> Fred's post was an interesting/entertaining way of creating the
>> equivalent of a CentOS/Fedora/RHEL runlevel 3 default boot.
> 
> THAT is one thing I miss. Just "init 3" and there you are. Clean, simple
> and easy peasy. Ric
> 
> 

So Ric, why haven't you tweaked your Grub menu yet?

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