Need to do some work in the black & white command line console? You can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 on keyboard to switch from the current session to tty3 text console, and switch back via Ctrl+Alt+F2.
From the startup grub boot-loader menu entry, you may select the Advanced Options > recovery mode > Drop to root shell prompt to get into text mode. However you need to run command mount -o rw,remount / to get file system write permission.
If you want to make Ubuntu automatically boot into the text mode, configure grub settings by doing following steps one by one:
1. Open terminal and run command to backup the configuration file:
sudo cp -n /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.backup
2. Edit the configuration file via command:
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
When the file opens, do:
- disable
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"by adding # at the beginning. - set
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""toGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text" - remove # from the line
GRUB_TERMINAL="console"to disable graphical terminal.
3. Save the file and apply changes by running command:
sudo update-grub
4. One more command is required as Ubuntu now uses systemd:
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
How to Restore:
To restore changes, simply move back the backup file via command:
sudo mv /etc/default/grub.backup /etc/default/grub
And run sudo update-grub to apply change.
Also change the setting back in systemd via command:
sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
hi ji m
do you how to prevent network loading into my my computer memory. when i start ubuntu in my computer some people manage to connect to my computer through a network (not internet) and load their version of ubuntu into my computer.
i believe they start their dirty work from my bios. i cannot change setting. because they copy every password i type. any method to stop them
What makes you think this is happening? It could just be an ubuntu update. Single-user mode disables most things loading and then you can inspect your services as root, if you are sure your computer is hacked.
ctrl+alt+f3 dn’t works for me. If I do ctrl+alt+fn+f3 it open a blank screen with cursor on the top left corner.
I nee to open ubuntu in console mode in order to update nvidia driver. Right now its getting stuck at loading screen before the login screen.
Please help.
Try recovery mode in Grub boot menu.
That is the command line!
Enter your user id and then you will be prompted for your password.
After this changes gnome-session was not working for me!
22.04 was crashing, and someone suggested it was nouveau and to go to proprietary nvidia. As that was not on my system other drivers menu, I downloaded and tried a more raw install. I got into text ok, but nvidia failed to make a kernel, and now I seem to have gotten stuck part way back with neither. How does one restore the system to a nice stable 20.04?