Re: How to boot without GUI
Quoting Bret Busby (bret.busby@gmail.com):
> The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode,
> unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error.
It would appear that there's some sort of disagreement over
terminology here. X will not be running while in single user mode (by
which we mean a single login as root. It'll still be installed and
configured to run when you're not in single user mode.
But let's just make things simple. Stop worrying about getting into
single user mode from the machine's normal running configuration.
Just reboot. Select single user mode from the grub menu. That's the
answer to your Subject line.
Now run your script, preferably after starting "script" so you capture
the output. If you have the same problem, viz "You appear to be running
xserver. Exit xserver and try again", then post that problem under
an appropriate subject line and you might start to make progress in
the actual problem area.
Cheers,
David.
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