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Re: How to arrange for booting to console

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, David Wright wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:48:35
> 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: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:48:54 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Sat 17 Sep 2016 at 02:34:11 (-0400), Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
> [snipped my response which was not grub-related]
>>>
>> edit /etc/default/grub then run grub-mkconfig to apply your changes
>> like this:
>> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> That's the "where"; what's the "what" ?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
Almost forgot, after doing edit as root run update-grub as root and you 
should be good to go.

>

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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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