Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early

[Daniel Dalton]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:24:11AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >Also, I don't want to replace quiet splash in grub with "text", because
> >I still want a gui to boot up.
> 
> My 10.04 boots up to normal GUI, but with text boot messages, with
> the following cmdline:
> 
> 	ro root=<device> splash=verbose noplymouth

So do I replace 
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
with:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ro root=/dev/sda splash=verbose noplymouth"

Doing this made my system unbootable, requiring me to boot the livecd
and chroot in, to repare it.