{"id":55,"date":"2016-04-11T02:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2016-04-11T02:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:17:50","slug":"ubuntu-14-04-boot-into-text-mode-console-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 14.04 : Boot into Text Mode \/ Console \/ Command Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 Ctrl+Alt+F1 on keyboard will switch your desktop to tty1.<br \/>\nUpdate: Thanks to August Karlstrom, before getting started, make a backup by running the command below:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"shell\">sudo cp -n \/etc\/default\/grub \/etc\/default\/grub.orig\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If for some reason you want to revert to original settings, just run command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"shell\">sudo mv \/etc\/default\/grub.orig \/etc\/default\/grub &amp;&amp; sudo update-grub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, follow the below steps:<\/p>\n<h4>1. Copy and paste below command into terminal and hit enter:<\/h4>\n<pre><code class=\"shell\">sudo vi \/etc\/default\/grub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>2. Do below changes:<\/h4>\n<p>Comment the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\u201dquiet splash\u201d, by adding # at the beginning, which will disable the Ubuntu purple screen.<br \/>\nChange GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\u201d&#8221; to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=\u201dtext\u201d, this makes Ubuntu boot directly into Text Mode.<br \/>\nUncomment this line #GRUB_TERMINAL=console, by removing the # at the beginning, this makes Grub Menu into real black &amp; white Text Mode (without background image)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ubuntu-text-mode.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n3. After saved the changes, update grub via command:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"shell\">sudo update-grub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Restart your computer and see the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial will show you how to boot your Ubu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/?p=55\" class=\"more-link\">\u7ee7\u7eed\u9605\u8bfb<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cUbuntu 14.04 : Boot into Text Mode \/ Console \/ Command Line\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wangqf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}