The Wanderer <wande...@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 <bi...@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. david...@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.
