Lab 3.1: Booting into Non-Graphical Mode Using GRUB (Ubuntu 16.10)
I'm at a loss how to accomplish this. The lab states that: "On some other systems (including Ubuntu) you need to append text instead." But this doesn't help me. I'm sure that someone before me has figured this out.
Comments
-
Took some google-ing, but i found that inserting "text" right after ro, then hitting "ctrl+x" will boot you into a command line. (*don't know if that was the proper method but it worked)*then your next step is getting back to the gui. I won't give away the answer but I will tell you after my attempts, loging in to the gui doesn't work for me. Glad I was able to answer your Question but now I need to go find the answer to mine.
0 -
Hi,
Do you see the grub menu, so you can edit the boot line? Or do you see a black screen and the OS just boots until you get the GUI?
You can start checking this Ubuntu documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
Regards,
Luis.
0 -
I was able to boot in text mode after inserting text as KWick suggested (I'm using pre-configured Ubuntu 14), but failed to start graphical mode. sudo startx show only blue screen, without login prompt.
Regards,
Nick
0 -
if you can login as the normal user, do not do "sudo startx"; that would try to give you a GUI as root, not your normal user account. Just say startx.
If that fails, try to restart lightdm (with sudo) which is the display manager, which should take you back to full graphical login
0 -
Hi...
if you using Ubuntu in a VM you have to push ESC from start of the VM. Then the boot menu appeaars and you can choose the kernel you want to start with the arrow keys. After choosing click "e" and you are entering the edit mode. Then search the line where the kernel is loading (starts with kernel vmlinuz....). At the end of this line put a number for a nongrafical runlevel or under Ubuntu you can also use "Single", "s" or "S" instead. After editing push F10 and the system should boot into the choosen runlevel.
0 -
Hello...I pushed Esc from the start over and over again. It worked! Thank you. I found my way into GRUB. Thank you, again.
0 -
Hello...my non-graphical mode did not run after following this procedure. I did get to GRUB and I found out a little about it. I tried to put an "s" after the end of the line where I could find a "vmlinuz" but I pressed F10 and it booted in graphical mode.
0 -
Hi silver2row,
Modifying the grub line should change that boot event only. After restarting the system, does this boot into graphical mode?
Regards,
Luis.
0 -
Not yet. I am still trying to find time. Sorry for the delay. I will get on it soon.
0 -
Hello...I cannot update the grub file in /etc/default to change the file and save it. I have a permission denied error.
0 -
Sir/Ma'am...I got the text mode to work on Ubuntu 16.04 in my hypervisor (VMware). I had to change out some files in the etc/default directory, i.e. the grub file specifically. I changed it, saved it, and rebooted. I got to graphical mode afterwards with sudo telinit 5.
0 -
Hi silver2row,
I'm glad to know that you were able to solve this.
Regards,
Luis.
0
Categories
- 8.8K All Categories
- 12 LFX Mentorship
- 65 LFX Mentorship: Linux Kernel
- 356 Linux Foundation Boot Camps
- 226 Cloud Engineer Boot Camp
- 69 Advanced Cloud Engineer Boot Camp
- 23 DevOps Engineer Boot Camp
- 5 Cloud Native Developer Boot Camp
- 724 Training Courses
- 14 LFC110 Class Forum
- 16 LFD102 Class Forum
- 96 LFD103 Class Forum
- 2 LFD121 Class Forum
- 55 LFD201 Class Forum
- 1 LFD213 Class Forum - Discontinued
- 128 LFD232 Class Forum
- 14 LFD254 Class Forum
- 420 LFD259 Class Forum
- 78 LFD272 Class Forum
- 1 LFD272-JP クラス フォーラム
- 15 LFS200 Class Forum
- 683 LFS201 Class Forum
- LFS201-JP クラス フォーラム
- 271 LFS211 Class Forum
- 50 LFS216 Class Forum
- 23 LFS241 Class Forum
- 26 LFS242 Class Forum
- 18 LFS243 Class Forum
- 4 LFS244 Class Forum
- 7 LFS250 Class Forum
- LFS250-JP クラス フォーラム
- 103 LFS253 Class Forum
- 753 LFS258 Class Forum
- 7 LFS258-JP クラス フォーラム
- 48 LFS260 Class Forum
- 74 LFS261 Class Forum
- 6 LFS262 Class Forum
- 76 LFS263 Class Forum
- 14 LFS264 Class Forum
- 10 LFS266 Class Forum
- 8 LFS267 Class Forum
- 8 LFS268 Class Forum
- 4 LFS269 Class Forum
- 173 LFS272 Class Forum
- 1 LFS272-JP クラス フォーラム
- 184 LFW211 Class Forum
- 99 LFW212 Class Forum
- 875 Hardware
- 204 Drivers
- 74 I/O Devices
- 43 Monitors
- 115 Multimedia
- 204 Networking
- 98 Printers & Scanners
- 82 Storage
- 716 Linux Distributions
- 78 Debian
- 64 Fedora
- 12 Linux Mint
- 13 Mageia
- 22 openSUSE
- 125 Red Hat Enterprise
- 33 Slackware
- 13 SUSE Enterprise
- 344 Ubuntu
- 445 Linux System Administration
- 33 Cloud Computing
- 63 Command Line/Scripting
- Github systems admin projects
- 88 Linux Security
- 73 Network Management
- 105 System Management
- 45 Web Management
- 50 Mobile Computing
- 18 Android
- 19 Development
- 1.2K New to Linux
- 1.1K Getting Started with Linux
- 499 Off Topic
- 119 Introductions
- 193 Small Talk
- 19 Study Material
- 742 Programming and Development
- 237 Kernel Development
- 471 Software Development
- 898 Software
- 244 Applications
- 178 Command Line
- 2 Compiling/Installing
- 72 Games
- 313 Installation
- 19 All In Program
- 19 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)