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

[Fred A. Miller]

On 08/30/2010 03:33 PM, 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.
>   

Correct. There are advantages for developers, sys. admins. for servers,
etc.

Fred