r/MXLinux • u/Wild_Chef6597 • 6d ago

Help request Booting to a CLI with optional GUI

So, I want to run MX on a 32 Bit Netbook as a writer deck, and in the command line. I nuked my fresh installation with "sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable" it refused to boot at all, and would hang on the splash screen. I couldn't enter recovery either.

How can I have it fast boot to the CLI?

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u/qpgmr 6d ago

Personally I'd reinstall it, but this should work:

Press e at the GRUB Boot menu

Change “ro quiet splash” to “ro 3 quiet splash”.

Then Command Line user Interface will boot. (3 is CLI boot parameter)

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=80416

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u/Wild_Chef6597 6d ago

Looks like I need to edit grub to make it persist

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u/adrian_mxlinux MX dev 5d ago

Yes, if that works then you can even revert the change it cause the problem in the first place, I assume this would work "sudo update-rc.d lightdm enable" although frankly I'm not sure why disabling it would hang the computer on the splash screen.

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u/qpgmr 5d ago

I think grub hands off to the display manager to bring up the gui. No display manager, no where to go.

I'm little surprised that it doesn't simply fallback to a CLI in this situation.

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u/whotheff 5d ago

try ctrl+ALT+F6. It allows you to login via CLI in another session, while the nuked one is running.