Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard <rb4centos at 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.... mark