Re: Installed Stretch, but no command line
Ken Heard composed on 2017-07-23 18:25 (UTC-0400):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Ken Heard composed on 2017-07-23 12:21 (UTC-0400):
>>> Ctrl-alt-F1 shows the blank screen which appears at the end of
>>> the boot. I think the problem is that what appears on opening
>>> tty2 to tty5 should appear in tty1 but for some reason does not
>>> -- instead the blank screen.
>> /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service probably
>> says
>> TTYVTDisallocate=yes
>> Changing to
>> TTYVTDisallocate=no
>> should on subsequent boots leave init messages on tty1, but
>> plymouth may need to be purged for that to happen.
> I tried that, but after I entered my /home password the boot continued
> and then stopped. After waiting fifteen minutes or so I concluded
> that the machine hanged.
All my installations have that set to no, so it's very surprising to me that
this could happen.
> I tried using the recovery mode from GRUB, but that hahged the machine
> as well. I then tried rescue mode from the installation disk. If it
> is possible to use that to put the Yes back, I could not figure it out.
> What do I do now?
If you had made a copy before your edit it would be a simple matter to rename
it. :-(
That said, that file is a plain text file. Any editor available in rescue mode
can put it back once the Stretch / partition is mounted. Try nano first, which
for most people is much more intuitive than traditional Linux editors like vi.
Something to try first: append plymouth.enable=0 to the kernel cmdline for an
otherwise normal boot. Also try appending a 3, which should block startup of the
GUI login manager, but also should make normal ttys 1-6 available.
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