How to Boot Ubuntu Directly to Command Line

I’m in the process of setting up a dedicated machine for Dansguardian on my home network. I found a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 laying around, so I installed it onto the machine I’m intending to use. Obviously, I don’t need the GUI at all on the machine as it’s going to run headless anyway. It’s actually very simple to do this.

1. Edit /etc/default/grub with your favorite editor:

sudo vim /etc/default/grub

2. Find the following line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”

3. Change it to:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text”

4. Finish up with:

sudo update-grub