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How to boot into text mode in Linux Mint LMDE (Debian-based)

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Mar 15, 202625726 views
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Ok, this might sound ridiculous, but of all the issues I could have, I'm scratching my head over booting into text mode. Normally I'm in the opposite direction, such as not working. To put the wtf-level of this into perspective, I just managed to run Photoshop CS5 without problems (I'm trying to go…

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Fix for: How to boot into text mode in Linux Mint LMDE (Debian-based)

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So, I was going to try as per @Stew's suggestion. Before that, I thougth, hey, there are "some" updates due, so I let it get updates to the packages (amongs them, linux 2.6.* to 3.0.*). When I rebooted, to my surprise, linux started in text mode. If…

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