If so, could you point me to some directions?
I tried to edit GRUB while it was booting, it's all a foreign language to me.
Any help would be appreciated!
Boot Loader for Unbuntu
Boot Loader for Unbuntu
Is there any way to configure my boot loader to boot straight to command prompt instead of GUI? When this happens, I need to make sure the runlevel has networking support.
If so, could you point me to some directions?
I tried to edit GRUB while it was booting, it's all a foreign language to me.
Any help would be appreciated!
If so, could you point me to some directions?
I tried to edit GRUB while it was booting, it's all a foreign language to me.
Any help would be appreciated!
Last edited by Crymsyn on Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
There is no inittab in /etc...
I dunno what the issue is. There's a init.d but it's a folder .. hmm.
I dunno what the issue is. There's a init.d but it's a folder .. hmm.
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
For most distro's those answers would have been perfect, Ubuntu however switched to a boot system called Upstart (It sucks IMHO). It is an event based init system that I have yet to figure out and the documentation for is junk.
You can try asking in the Ubuntu help channel irc.freenode.net #ubuntu, however your probably going to get the same answer.
I spent a few days on this a month or two ago and couldnt make heads or tails of it. If you do figure out how to set it up in any other way that going into single user mode (rescue mode) let me know. With Debian, RH, Fedora ... pretty much any other distro its easy to do. Ubuntu though seems to want to make it harder to tinker under the hood while making it easier to use for the normal user.
You can try asking in the Ubuntu help channel irc.freenode.net #ubuntu, however your probably going to get the same answer.
I spent a few days on this a month or two ago and couldnt make heads or tails of it. If you do figure out how to set it up in any other way that going into single user mode (rescue mode) let me know. With Debian, RH, Fedora ... pretty much any other distro its easy to do. Ubuntu though seems to want to make it harder to tinker under the hood while making it easier to use for the normal user.
*Computers are alot like air-conditioners. They work great until you open windows*
\Unfortunately, I have recieved the same answer from the Ubuntu forums. I dunno what I'm going to do.
Someone said to edit the menu.lst and he had success in doing this so that is next step.
Someone said to edit the menu.lst and he had success in doing this so that is next step.
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
the /boot/grub/menu.lst as far as I know will only allow you to pass the argument to go into single (rescue) user mode.
Not to mention, messing with that file and not knowing exactly what your doing can turn your system into an unbootable boat anchor. It is recoverable, but a serious pain in the back side to do it.
If you are going to mess with it, the safest way is to "escape" into the grub list when your booting up. then use e for edit, and edit the boot command in place. This wont permenantly save the changes, rather only pass them for that one boot. Next reboot and it will be back to the way it was.
In this fashion, if you hose the boot command you dont hose the system. Once you get it doing what you want .. THEN go in and edit the menu.lst.
Not to mention, messing with that file and not knowing exactly what your doing can turn your system into an unbootable boat anchor. It is recoverable, but a serious pain in the back side to do it.
If you are going to mess with it, the safest way is to "escape" into the grub list when your booting up. then use e for edit, and edit the boot command in place. This wont permenantly save the changes, rather only pass them for that one boot. Next reboot and it will be back to the way it was.
In this fashion, if you hose the boot command you dont hose the system. Once you get it doing what you want .. THEN go in and edit the menu.lst.
*Computers are alot like air-conditioners. They work great until you open windows*
I found a solution!
You simply disable the startup script for gdm.
To disable:
To enable:
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You simply disable the startup script for gdm.
To disable:
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sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm /etc/rc2.d/s13gdmTo enable:
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sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/s13gdm /etc/rc2.d/S13gdmWhoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant;
"If I die, you are forgiven. If I live, I.. will.. kill you."
Such is the rule, of honor.