Etc/init or etc/init.d to boot into text only mode

Support & Help Requests Raspberry Pi
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New to linux & Pi

have installed openSSH and got it to start from boot & it works from a remote system.

How to I configure the start up process (Upstart or init) so that the GUI is not started and boot goes straight into text mode/terminal?

Is there any official documentation?

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Hi venerley, welcome to the forums :slight_smile:

We have a raspberry section and I moved you there. I donā€™t own one, so have to wait for someone else to come along. Thereā€™s docs on upstart, is that what pi uses? The regular desktop install uses systemd.

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Thanks for the guidance. Being new to Linux I am even newer to the start up process and the Ubuntu deviation from the norm. This is the first time I have heard of systemd ! so thanks for making me aware of it.

V.

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Hereā€™s a handy search tool.

http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142%3Au-ocqbntw_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=boot+to+text+mode&as_qdr=all&sa=Google+Search&lang=en

Just editing the grub file works nice for me, but again , not sure if this applies to Pi.

Good luck :slight_smile:

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Hi @venerley,

does this help?:

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Wolfman thanks for the post.

Should this work for UbuntuMATE? which I am running.
I just tried ā€œsudo raps-configā€ and got the response ā€œraspi-config: command not foundā€. I was under the impression that the ā€œraspi-configā€ was for ā€˜raspianā€™ users?

I have found UbuntuMATE ā€œBoot-Up Managerā€, however I would prefer to learn and understand how to perform this setup from the command lined which will force an understanding of the boot & startup process and architecture.

I might disable ā€œlightdmā€ in ā€œBoot-Up Managerā€ and try and determine how it effects the various scripts that control boot up. Any wisdom gratefully accepted.

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Sorry but I don't have one (RaspberryPi) so I cannot really be of any further help to you!. :frowning:

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Should be independent of h/ware in the case of UbuntuMATE as it is a desktop build I think. Anyway thanks for the input.

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Hi, could you try this :
systemctl set-default multi-user.target --force
systemctl disable lightdm.service --force
systemctl disable graphical.target --force
systemctl disable plymouth.service --force
Then reboot.
Replace disable with enable if you wish to boot to desktop again.