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Re: How to arrange for booting to console

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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.

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:

> Assuming you use jessie (and systemd),
>
> systemctl set-default multi-user.target
>
> should do the trick. You can get the current default with
>
> systemctl get-default
>
> It's typically graphical.target.

Thanks, I actually used  your suggestion of
   systemctl set-default multi-user.target

Worked just as suggested.  I have the job running that was running out
of memory.. so I'll see if leaving X out of things is enough to allow
it to complete.  See above for some sniveling about the default
console.

davidson@freevolt.org writes:

> If using systemd, these look relevant:
>
>> How can I arrange to boot to console mode rather than X.
>
>  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TipsAndTricks/#changingthedefaultboottarget
>
>  # ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
>
>> With the ability to startx when I feel like it.
>
>  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
>
>  # systemctl isolate graphical.target

Thanks, your suggestion is a little more complete version of Davidson
above.... again thanks.

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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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