Booting into Text Mode in 16.04
Is There Any Way to Temporarily Disable Gui (X Server) When Booting an Ubuntu 16.04 Lts Installation? There Are Various Guides Advising to Add Text Option onto...
Is there any way to temporarily disable GUI (X server) when booting an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation?
There are various guides advising to add text option onto the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub or directly on the linux line in GRUB. These methods work well in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but I always end up in LightDM when trying them in 16.04 LTS.
1 Answer
To boot Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop without X one time, add systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the linux command line in GRUB.
To make this the default, use
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
To return to default booting into X, use
sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
To see the current default target,
sudo systemctl get-default
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