Booting into non-graphical mode
In Lab 3.1 I have a problem booting to non-graphical mode from GRUB in Ubuntu 16.04.
I hit "e" on the GRUB interface and change "quiet splash" to "text" in the linux line, then boot (F10) but it still boots to the desktop GUI.
Is there a different way to do this?
Comments
-
Yes there is another way. I am not very skilled at entering commands on the kernel line but I know how to change runlevels from /etc. Apparently, 16.04 is using systemd to start and stop services and to the boot behavior.
Have a look at this link. Becuase Ubuntu 16.04 is using systemd as the service startup manager, to make any service changes, you will have to use systemd's utility "systemctl".
Have a look at this site.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/788323/change-runlevel-on-16-04
0 -
Hi,
If your system is using a systemd based init process, you can switch between graphical/non-graphical runlevel at boot, editing grub (e) and adding to the linux kernel line
systemd.unit=NAME_OF_DESIRED_RUNLEVEL
The runlevel names may be:
multi-user.target (for runlevel 3)
graphical.taget (for runlevel 5)0 -
sudo systemctl isolate muti-user.target
- Should kill X and get me a login prompt, right? But similar to my reply below, it just hangs on a black screen.
0 -
I am running systemd and your suggestion makes sense but I'm not getting a command prompt. the GUI is not loading as expected but I end up with a blank screen similar to this:
/dev/sd8: recovering journal /dev/sda8: clean, 346887/1818624 files, 1865910/7268864 blocks _
It just hangs there with a blinking prompt.
0 -
Sometimes when I start into multi-user, the system not shows me the login propmt, but is there. Only for test, can you try to enter in this blinking prompt your user name and press enter?0
-
I get nothing - it doesn't recognize input from the keyboard at all.
0 -
This problem still has me flummoxed. I've learned much about Linux over the years from youtube videos. 'Twould be *awesome* if someone who had solved this puzzle would post a demo.
0 -
In ubuntu16.04 appending "text" does not work; instead append "3" (like you would with other distros) to the end of the linux kernel line in grub. It will then boot into a terminal. To get it to go do full graphic mode after that you can do sudo systemctl start lightdm
0 -
Hi,
try number 3 after quiet: quiet 3 splash
0 -
That did the trick, thank you!!
0
Categories
- All Categories
- 51 LFX Mentorship
- 104 LFX Mentorship: Linux Kernel
- 576 Linux Foundation IT Professional Programs
- 304 Cloud Engineer IT Professional Program
- 125 Advanced Cloud Engineer IT Professional Program
- 53 DevOps Engineer IT Professional Program
- 61 Cloud Native Developer IT Professional Program
- 5 Express Training Courses
- 5 Express Courses - Discussion Forum
- 2.1K Training Courses
- 19 LFC110 Class Forum
- 7 LFC131 Class Forum
- 27 LFD102 Class Forum
- 158 LFD103 Class Forum
- 21 LFD121 Class Forum
- 1 LFD137 Class Forum
- 61 LFD201 Class Forum
- 1 LFD210 Class Forum
- LFD210-CN Class Forum
- 1 LFD213 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 128 LFD232 Class Forum
- LFD237 Class Forum
- 23 LFD254 Class Forum
- 612 LFD259 Class Forum
- 105 LFD272 Class Forum
- 1 LFD272-JP クラス フォーラム
- 1 LFD273 Class Forum
- 2 LFS145 Class Forum
- 25 LFS200 Class Forum
- 739 LFS201 Class Forum
- 1 LFS201-JP クラス フォーラム
- 11 LFS203 Class Forum
- 76 LFS207 Class Forum
- 300 LFS211 Class Forum
- 54 LFS216 Class Forum
- 47 LFS241 Class Forum
- 41 LFS242 Class Forum
- 37 LFS243 Class Forum
- 11 LFS244 Class Forum
- 37 LFS250 Class Forum
- 1 LFS250-JP クラス フォーラム
- LFS251 Class Forum
- 141 LFS253 Class Forum
- LFS254 Class Forum
- 1.1K LFS258 Class Forum
- 10 LFS258-JP クラス フォーラム
- 93 LFS260 Class Forum
- 132 LFS261 Class Forum
- 33 LFS262 Class Forum
- 80 LFS263 Class Forum
- 15 LFS264 Class Forum
- 11 LFS266 Class Forum
- 18 LFS267 Class Forum
- 18 LFS268 Class Forum
- 23 LFS269 Class Forum
- 203 LFS272 Class Forum
- 1 LFS272-JP クラス フォーラム
- LFS274 Class Forum
- LFS281 Class Forum
- 236 LFW211 Class Forum
- 172 LFW212 Class Forum
- 7 SKF100 Class Forum
- SKF200 Class Forum
- 903 Hardware
- 219 Drivers
- 74 I/O Devices
- 44 Monitors
- 116 Multimedia
- 209 Networking
- 101 Printers & Scanners
- 85 Storage
- 763 Linux Distributions
- 88 Debian
- 66 Fedora
- 15 Linux Mint
- 13 Mageia
- 24 openSUSE
- 142 Red Hat Enterprise
- 33 Slackware
- 13 SUSE Enterprise
- 357 Ubuntu
- 479 Linux System Administration
- 41 Cloud Computing
- 70 Command Line/Scripting
- Github systems admin projects
- 95 Linux Security
- 78 Network Management
- 108 System Management
- 49 Web Management
- 68 Mobile Computing
- 23 Android
- 30 Development
- 1.2K New to Linux
- 1.1K Getting Started with Linux
- 538 Off Topic
- 131 Introductions
- 217 Small Talk
- 22 Study Material
- 826 Programming and Development
- 278 Kernel Development
- 514 Software Development
- 928 Software
- 260 Applications
- 184 Command Line
- 3 Compiling/Installing
- 76 Games
- 316 Installation
- 61 All In Program
- 61 All In Forum
Upcoming Training
-
August 20, 2018
Kubernetes Administration (LFS458)
-
August 20, 2018
Linux System Administration (LFS301)
-
August 27, 2018
Open Source Virtualization (LFS462)
-
August 27, 2018
Linux Kernel Debugging and Security (LFD440)