{"id":1972,"date":"2014-08-22T09:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2014-08-22T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:43:27","slug":"force-ubuntu-boot-into-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Force Ubuntu Boot into Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #111111;\">To make Ubuntu boot command line by default, you will have to open and edit\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">\/etc\/default\/grub<\/div><\/div>\n<p>. Open terminal, and open the file using the following command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"qoate-code\" style=\"color: #000000 !important;\">sudo nano \/etc\/default\/grub\r\n<\/pre>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Find the line that says\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">GRUB_CMLDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT<\/div><\/div>\n<p>. By default it should have quotation marks with nothing in between. Add the word \u201ctext\u201d within the quotation marks as shown in the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0088b3;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.htpcbeginner.com\/images\/2014\/04\/ubuntu-boot-into-terminal-grub.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10992\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1-ps.googleusercontent.com\/h\/www.htpcbeginner.com\/images\/2014\/04\/ubuntu-boot-into-terminal-grub-500x254.png.pagespeed.ce.1RFyBVXbgE.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu Boot into Terminal\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Save the file by pressing Ctrl X, followed by \u201cY\u201d. Then update Grub using the command\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">sudo update-grub<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0to make\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0088b3;\" href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/16371\/how-do-i-disable-x-at-boot-time-so-that-the-system-boots-in-text-mode\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu boot into terminal<\/a>\u00a0on reboot.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #111111;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.htpcbeginner.com\/images\/2014\/04\/ubuntu-update-grub.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10993\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1-ps.googleusercontent.com\/h\/www.htpcbeginner.com\/images\/2014\/04\/ubuntu-update-grub-500x126.png.pagespeed.ce.4IUBQB1iQX.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu Update Grub\" width=\"500\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Upon reboot, you should Ubuntu boot to commandline by default<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">To Start the GUI Use<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">sudo start lightdm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make Ubuntu boot command line by default, you will have to open and edit\u00a0 \/etc\/default\/grub . Open terminal, and open the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}