Grub options and Boot Parameters
If you are never prompted for sign-in you can still take action by changing your boot options.
At the Grub menu, make your selection and and hit E to edit the kernel boot line.
Note: Many Manjaro systems have Grub hidden by default.
If this is the case tap Esc or Shift to make it appear.
Linux systems have defined 'run-level’s denoting which services are loaded at boot.
They are defined as follows:
0 = halt, 1 = single-user-mode, 2 = multi-user-mode, 3 = multi-user-mode+networking, 4 = undefined, 5 = multi-user-mode+networking+displaymanager, 6 = reboot
As shown above, we normally boot into runlevel 5. But it can be useful, such as in the case of broken gfx drivers, to use runlevel 3.
In the grub editor look for the line beginning with linux , it should look like this:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.11-x86_64 root=UUID=0a01099a-1e33-489a-a2de-10104e8492f5 rw quiet
Simply add a 3 to the options at the end of the line (and optionally remove ‘quiet’) so it appears like this:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.11-x86_64 root=UUID=0a01099a-1e33-489a-a2de-10104e8492f5 rw 3
To continue booting use the F10 key.
If greeted with a login prompt then login with your user name and password.
