the above commands will disable x from running each time you start your computer
to get into a prompt, without even having to shutdown x, hit ctrl alt F1 (u can use F1-F6 to get into the several prompts, then to quickly get back into x, hit ctrl alt F7 (u can use F7-F12 depending on how many x servers you've got running)
once u get into that prompt, u can kill all the x servers completely and get into runlevel 3 without restarting by doing telinit 3; telinit 5 will restart x
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