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Re: How to arrange for booting to console

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Am 11.09.2016 um 23:04 schrieb Harry Putnam:
> How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X.   With the
> ability to startx when I feel like it.
> 
> I'm not familiar with grub2 and the debian vm I'm using on a solaris
> host appears to be using grub2.
> 
> Can anyone stear me to the files I'd need to edit?
> 

Assuming you use jessie (and systemd),

systemctl set-default multi-user.target

should do the trick. You can get the current default with

systemctl get-default

It's typically graphical.target.


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How to arrange for booting to console Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-11 23:10 +0200
  Re: How to arrange for booting to console Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 23:50 +0200
  Re: How to arrange for booting to console The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-11 23:50 +0200
    Re: How to arrange for booting to console Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-12 01:00 +0200
      Re: How to arrange for booting to console The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-12 01:10 +0200
        Re: How to arrange for booting to console Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-09-12 09:00 +0200
      Re: How to arrange for booting to console davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-12 08:00 +0200
      Re: How to arrange for booting to console David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-16 15:50 +0200
        Re: How to arrange for booting to console Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-17 08:40 +0200
          Re: How to arrange for booting to console David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 21:50 +0200
            Re: How to arrange for booting to console Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 22:30 +0200
            Re: How to arrange for booting to console Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-19 22:30 +0200
  Re: How to arrange for booting to console davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-12 00:00 +0200
    Re: How to arrange for booting to console Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 13:40 +0200

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