Tony Arnold wrote: > Andrew, > > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > >> Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu? >> I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in >> /etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the >> machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI >> invoked. If you then wanted a GUI you simply ran it >> with the command 'startx'. Often when I switch my >> laptop on I just want a terminal but have to go through >> all the logon and GUI to get there. >> > > Ubuntu has the default init level set to 2. 1 is used for single user > mode which you get to if you select recovery mode from the grub menu. > That logs you in as root at the console. Hitting Ctrl-D will cause the > system to continue bootting fully. > > I think setting the default init level to something other than 2 (it's > set in /etc/inittab) will require you to check which levels all the init > scripts are configured to start up. Could be messy. > > Umm, there is no inittab file in my Ubuntu (7.10), that's what I originally went looking for. That was how Mandriva did it.
> Alternatively, you could just remove gdm (or kdm) from the starting up > by using the update-rc.d command. Check the man page for details. > > I'm going to investigate this 'gdm' further as two of you have now mentioned it. > More simply you could just hit Control-Alt-F1 after you've booted to > switch to a virtual console. > > Yes I know that but it still has to go through all the GUI startup first and I was hoping to avoid that. Thanks for the replies both, I'll have a play later and let you know how I get on. Regards, Andy. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
