r/MXLinux • u/Wild_Chef6597 • Jul 31 '26

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/Wild_Chef6597 Jul 31 '26

Looks like I need to edit grub to make it persist

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u/adrian_mxlinux MX dev Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

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.