{"id":2766,"date":"2014-01-05T08:29:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T08:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2014-11-14T11:49:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:49:49","slug":"boot-into-text-console-ubuntu-linux-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/boot-into-text-console-ubuntu-linux-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10: Boot into Text Mode \/ Console \/ Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/command-console.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1933\" alt=\"boot into command line ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/command-console.png\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This simple tutorial will show you how to boot your Ubuntu system directly into command line (text mode or console). If you just want a console for temporary use, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+F1<\/b> on keyboard will switch your desktop to tty1.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Thanks to <i>August Karlstrom<\/i>, before getting started, make a backup by running the command below:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo cp -n \/etc\/default\/grub \/etc\/default\/grub.orig<\/pre>\n<p>If for some reason you want to revert to original settings, just run command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo mv \/etc\/default\/grub.orig \/etc\/default\/grub && sudo update-grub<\/pre>\n<p><b>To get started<\/b>, press <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> to open terminal. When it opens, follow the below steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Copy and paste below command into terminal and hit enter:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo gedit \/etc\/default\/grub<\/pre>\n<p>This opens Grub boot loader config file with text editor.<\/p>\n<p>2. Do below changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comment the line <b><i>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&#8221;quiet splash&#8221;<\/i><\/b>, by adding <b>#<\/b> at the beginning, which will disable the Ubuntu purple screen.<\/li>\n<li>Change <b><i>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=&#8221;&#8221;<\/i><\/b> to <b><i>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=&#8221;text&#8221;<\/i><\/b>, this makes Ubuntu boot directly into Text Mode.<\/li>\n<li>Uncomment this line <b><i>#GRUB_TERMINAL=console<\/i><\/b>, by removing the <b>#<\/b> at the beginning, this makes Grub Menu into real black &#038; white Text Mode (without background image)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ubuntu-text-mode.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ubuntu-text-mode.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu boot into text mode\" width=\"583\" height=\"371\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ubuntu-text-mode.png 583w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ubuntu-text-mode-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. After saved the changes, update grub via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo update-grub<\/pre>\n<p>Restart your computer and see the result.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This simple tutorial will show you how to boot your Ubuntu system directly into command line (text mode or console). If you just want a console for temporary use, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 on keyboard will switch your desktop to tty1. Update: Thanks to August Karlstrom, before getting started, make a backup by running the command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[855,965],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-ubuntu-boot-into-command-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}