Re: How to arrange for booting to console

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

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.