Re: Cannot get the Login Screen sddm to work

On 08/14/2016 04:24 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:17:10 -0400, Dick Barmann wrote:
>> then it would go to text. kububuntu 16.04 tty1
> So those two steps
>
> - Boot the Ubuntu Live CD.
> - Press Ctrl-Alt-F1
>
> already worked.
>
> Once in text mode, you could use the command line to chroot as
> described by https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery , IOW
> continue
>
> - sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
>                   #^^^^ or what ever else your / partition is
>                   #FWIW I prefer to first create a dir in /mnt, but the
>                   #howto does use /mnt directly
>                   #I guess you don't need to bind anything, but I don't
>                   #no for sure
> - sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
> - sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
> - sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
> - sudo chroot /mnt
> - systemctl disable lightdm
>                   #to disable lightdm
> - systemctl enable sddm
>                   #to enable sddm
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
What did you tell me to use in an earlier post to setup/install Grub?

Dick.