Re: How to arrange for booting to console
On Monday 19 September 2016 21:23:05 Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 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.
That still isn't the "what"!!!
Lisi
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