To boot Kali in console mode is a pretty common practice. Since Kali has updated to 2.0/Rolling, the normal method of using chkconfig to disable the display manager no longer works. I am not sure why it doesn’t work, but it doesn’t. They also use LightDM instead of GDM3.
Updated 9/1/2016:
On the Kali forums, user ovosodo provides a much cleaner resolution:
To get Kali 2.0 / Rolling to boot into console (useful on ARM hardware such as Raspberry Pi/2/3), run the following commands:
root@kali:~# systemctl get-default
root@kali:~# systemctl set-default multi-user.target
Once you reboot, you will be at the familiar console login screen. To revert these changes, all one has to do is run:
root@kali:~# systemctl set-default graphical.target
Once you reboot, you should be back to the GUI login screen.
Tried it it work but it’s not booting back in GUI the code fails … I’ve tried running the gdm3 it shows me my log on screen but I never get to log on because nothing works there …Please help soon…
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very helpful. thanks!