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Re: How to arrange for booting to console



Am 11.09.2016 um 23:04 schrieb Harry Putnam:
> How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X.   With the
> ability to startx when I feel like it.
> 
> I'm not familiar with grub2 and the debian vm I'm using on a solaris
> host appears to be using grub2.
> 
> Can anyone stear me to the files I'd need to edit?
> 

Assuming you use jessie (and systemd),

systemctl set-default multi-user.target

should do the trick. You can get the current default with

systemctl get-default

It's typically graphical.target.


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