single user mode

[CommonMan]

Can anyone tell me how to boot into "single user mode?"

Or, a way I can boot up my Mac and avoid the Graphical User Interface

Or, a place to find command I can use on a Mac to avoid using the Graphical User Interface?

 

[jlewis2k1]

you hold down "S" as you boot up.

 

[Soton Speed]

Terminal.app

To be found in /Applications/Utilities

 

[Lixivial]

And, yet another way to "bypass the GUI", you can log directly into the console by using the login window. Press the down or up key on your keyboard and press option-return -- in the name type >console and leave the password blank. Click login, or press enter.

Login as you otherwise would, when you're finished just type in exit and press return to come back to the login window. This and Terminal.app are not the same as single-user mode, however.