How to Access Runlevel 3 on Fedora 40

Booting Runlevel 3

2. 2. Editing GRUB Command

   First, Restart Fedora
   From Command Line:

   sudo reboot

   Then on Grub Splash
   Hit ‘e’ to Edit boot command:

   

   Next Find Line containing
   “echo ‘Loading initial ramdisk…”
   And Append a ‘3‘ on Top of that at the End of Line containing ‘quiet’!
   (Use arrows to navigating)

   

3. 3. Booting Runlevel 3

   Finally, Hit Ctrl+x or F10 to Boot into Fedora’s Shell!

   Then Use the User’s Credentials to Login on CLI

   
   

   Finally, to Check Runlevel do:

   who -r

   And you should happily Find a 3 as Output!