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