Greg Wooledge composed on 2024-12-05 21:41 (UTC-0500): > Assuming you use GRUB (I don't know whether a "MacBook pro 2014" is an > amd64 system), you should be able to interrupt the boot sequence, press
Apple didn't drop Intel CPUs until 2023. My iMac 2007 is an Intel 64 bit. > the 'e' key to edit the boot parameters, and add > systemd.unit=multi-user.target > to the kernel parameters. I think you can also shorten this to just > 2 > but I haven't actually tried that. [quote] The multi-user target is the state where the system can accept multiple non-graphical user sessions. It’s equivalent to SysV runlevels 2, 3, and 4. [/quote] https://www.baeldung.com/linux/systemd-target-multi-user Table mapping of targets to runlevels: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/runlevel.html -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata