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Re: How to arrange for booting to console

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On 2016-09-11 at 18:52, Harry Putnam wrote:

> The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
>> On 2016-09-11 at 17:04, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> 
>>> How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X.   With
>>> the ability to startx when I feel like it.

>> The way I usually do it is to uninstall gdm, kdm, xdm, et cetera;
>> those are the packages which hook in to provide a graphical login
>> prompt. With none of them present, what you get is the traditional
>> text-mode login prompt, and your configured shell after login.
> 
> That sounds promissing.  Used one of the methods below and quickly
> realized I was expecting a nice big framebuffered text console with
> a much higher resolution than the standard. (Previously my OS of
> choice was gentoo), But of course all that has to be setup.... as I
> recall it is done with a few extra bits on the kernel line
> grub.conf....
> 
> Using grub2 I'm thoroughly lost what or where one would edit to
> allow a console frame buffer.

AFAIK, the GRUB2 menu is defined from /boot/grub/grub.cfg; the headers
of that file say that it's generated from templates in /etc/grub.d/ and
settings in /etc/default/grub.

Based on a quick look in those locations, you probably want to adjust
one of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX* settings in the latter file. I haven't
done much tweaking in that area myself, however (I only migrated to
GRUB2 within the last year, give or take), so I can't confirm that with
any certainty.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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How to arrange for booting to console Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-11 23:10 +0200
  Re: How to arrange for booting to console Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-09-11 23:50 +0200
  Re: How to arrange for booting to console The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-11 23:50 +0200
    Re: How to arrange for booting to console Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-12 01:00 +0200
      Re: How to arrange for booting to console The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-12 01:10 +0200
        Re: How to arrange for booting to console Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2016-09-12 09:00 +0200
      Re: How to arrange for booting to console davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-12 08:00 +0200
      Re: How to arrange for booting to console David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-16 15:50 +0200
        Re: How to arrange for booting to console Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-17 08:40 +0200
          Re: How to arrange for booting to console David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 21:50 +0200
            Re: How to arrange for booting to console Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 22:30 +0200
            Re: How to arrange for booting to console Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-09-19 22:30 +0200
  Re: How to arrange for booting to console davidson@freevolt.org - 2016-09-12 00:00 +0200
    Re: How to arrange for booting to console Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 13:40 +0200

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