[Discuss] text-screen login?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 04/18/2012 05:23 PM, edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> R. Luoma wrote:
>> For some for the recent distros (e.g. ubuntu)
>> I am having difficulty figuring out how to kill
>> the GUI login and have the old-fashion
>> text-terminal-like login screen.
>>
>> Does anyone have helpful advice
>> on how to set up a freshly installed
>> linux-based system to start with
>> a text-screen login
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> You could always add runlevel 3 to the boot parameters.
They have done away with runlevels, but the run level option still
exists in the kernel boot parameters.

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