Re: Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:55:51PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>
> This was already mentioned. The answer is ctrl+alt+f1 through
> ctrl+alt+f6 by default. Let me clarify. Unlike in some other
> distributions (slackware comes to mind), there is no such thing as
> booting into text mode, since gdm starts up in run levels 2-5, as do
> your six text consoles by default. So, you actually have both the
> graphical environment and text mode available to you at the same
> time. The only way to have truly text mode would be either to disable
> gdm and start x through running startx, or uninstall the graphical
> desktop totally. Since both text and graphical modes are available to
> you anyway, there is no reason to do that if you just want to work at
> a text console. For the sake of completeness, I will mention run level
> 1 which is text mode in a single console. You don't want to stay in
> run level one all the time for everyday use though. Kind of drawn out,
> but it hopefully clears things up. In a nutshell, there's no such thing as text
> mode in debian.
If you append "text" to the kernel commandline, you'll boot into text
mode, similar to an RH-based runlevel 3.
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