How to boot up Ubuntu in text terminal mode?

Ubuntu9.10 boot by 'grub', to change the boot mode to text-mode, we just need to change boot settings in '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'.

 

a. #vim /boot/grub/grub.cfg, you will find section like:

 

menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic" {

        recordfail=1

        if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi

        set quiet=1

        insmod ext2

        set root=(hd0,1)

        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 99c002e1-ea23-4eae-8b0e-5489df9e4223

        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=99c002e1-ea23-4eae-8b0e-5489df9e4223 ro   quiet splash

        initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic

}

(*note:this is the default mode with runlevel = 2)

 

b. up-copy this part, and change it as below illustration:

 

menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-text" {

        recordfail=1

        if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi

#       set quiet=1

        insmod ext2

        set root=(hd0,1)

        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 99c002e1-ea23-4eae-8b0e-5489df9e4223

        linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=99c002e1-ea23-4eae-8b0e-5489df9e4223 ro   text

        initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic

}

(*note:since this part comes first in grub.cfg, so it become default boot mode with runlevel = 3)

 

c. #reboot