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How do I boot into true text mode?

rated 0 times [ 40] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 88384 / 2 Years ago, fri, august 20, 2021, 8:37:43

I've found ways to disable gdm or lightdm or whatever 11.10 uses, but I can't find a way to get a true text-mode boot. I want to see all the kernel messages fly by as it boots, not a stupid purple screen.

I got the desktop manager turned off finally, but now I get a purple screen for a while, then it switches to TTY1. After that happens, I get about half a screen of kernel messages (the end of the boot sequence; stuff about running init scripts etc.) and the login prompt. I did this by changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to text in /etc/defaults/grub.

Really my main question is, what is putting that dumb purple screen up at boot, and how do I disable it!?

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answered 2 Years ago asketbridiculou · Accepted Answer

Edit in /etc/default/grub

# Stops the ubuntu purple screen

#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"



# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) 

GRUB_TERMINAL=console

Then run a sudo update-grub.