Debian – How to boot Debian into text mode without using GUI

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How can I boot Debian into text mode? My mouse and keyboard are working in GRUB, but when the login screen appears they don't, so I can't do anything.

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You can also do CTRL ALT F key where F key is F1 to F6 to bring up that text login screen. Note that screen 1 is where the bootup information is.
CTRL ALT F7 will take you back to the GUI.

Going into single user mode stops many of the services which are present in the multi-user mode. This probably not what you want here.

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But init.d screws me over by changing into a screen resolution that my monitor/graphics card does not support. I have the feeling it is some VESA mode that is being changed.

I don't think that's an init process. That's the kernel. It occurs during the boot messages, right?

If you compile the kernel without framebuffer support, it should not happen. If you are using a stock kernel, it's possibly a module.

find /lib/modules -name fb.ko

Remove that if found, run depmod, and reboot.

If that module is not there but you have a /dev/fb[N] (where [N] is a number, probably 0), you need to do it some other way. Try adding:

vga=normal nomodeset

to the kernel invocation line in grub.cfg.

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