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Re: How to arrange for booting to console

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:38:31
> From: David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
> Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How to arrange for booting to console
> Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:43:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> I missed this reply until Lisi bumped the thread.
> These are my opinions, based of the pathetically little I know.
>
> On Sun 11 Sep 2016 at 18:52:59 (-0400), 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.
>
> It ought to. It's the display managers that start X. If they're not
> there, you've to start it yourself with startx.
>
>> 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.
>
> But you got ... what?
>
> If you want to know whether you're looking at a nice big framebuffered
> text console, install fbset and type
> $ fbset
> If you see something like:
>
> mode "1280x800"
>    geometry 1280 800 1280 800 32
>    timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>    accel true
>    rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
> endmode
>
> then you are.
>
> BTW What's the "standard" resolution of which you speak?
>
>> (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.
>
> I've yet to install a Debian system where the kernel didn't boot into
> a console (VC1) running at anything other than the native/maximum
> resolution. Now, maybe I'm lucky. Maybe I've had good fortune with
> graphics devices, screens and everything else. But I would recommend
> investigating exactly what you've got on booting up before you start
> fiddling. Oh, and if you see your huge screen with a blurry 80x25
> console on it, don't mistake font size for resolution.
>
> Use   dpkg-reconfigure console-setup   to set utf-8, Latin1, the font
> and its size. With a framebuffer you get more choice of size.
> Note: don't ever run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup if X is running,
> whether or not you're using it (eg by typing Ctl-Alt-Fn). It won't
> have the desired effect and it might have you troubleshooting
> problems of your own making.
>
> As for systemctl set-default, no idea, never used it wittingly.
> As for runlevels, well, as Lisi said, Debian doesn't use them in
> the way some distributions do, which can cause confusion.
> 1 is single-user, 2 is normal. Apologies if that simplicity has been
> abandoned in stretch since I last checked.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
edit /etc/default/grub then run grub-mkconfig to apply your changes like 
this:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

hth.
>

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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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