Ron Blizzard wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H tomh0665@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard rb4centos@gmail.com wrote:
Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line.
To boot into "everything but X", you can append "text" to the kernel (grub1) or linux (grub2) line in the grub configuration.
Okay, thanks. Good to know. I forget what "kludging" process I had to go through to get Mint to boot into text, I think I disabled the X server somehow. But even when I got to text mode, the Nouveau driver had loaded, which is why I eventually had to blacklist it before installing the proprietary nVidia driver.
Or edit /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3, or just init 3 from the command line (which you can reach via <ctrl><alt>-f1) or I think you can append 3 to the kernel line....
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