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Wayne Werner
Asked: 2012-01-01 14:25:17 +0800 CST

How do I get the virtual terminal to show by default on startup?

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I've got an older system that's resource challenged. I've disabled/removed gdm and kdm, and removed the splash screen by editing /etc/default/grub and running sudo update-grub.

GDM doesn't start, and I don't get the splash screen. However, I'm left with

Checking battery state [ OK ]

and I have to press ctrl+alt+F1 to get to the virtual terminal. How can I make the startup process end at tty0?

(I'm running Ubuntu 10.10)

startup

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    X (window server) is starting with no window manager and you need to change your default runlevel but cannot find the /etc/inittab file and there is no appropriate runlevel to use anyway, right? If you do not want to use the cleanest method of installing 10.04/10.10 server, then just tell GDM not to even try on runlevel 3:

    sudo -e /etc/init/gdm.conf

    Change stop on runlevel [016] to stop on runlevel [0136]

    Save. Now set the default runlevel:

    sudo -e /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf

    Change env DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=2 to env DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=3

    Save and reboot: sudo init 6

    Success?

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