On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte >> <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote: >>> >>> I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in >>> graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want >>> to have a "normal boot" without X. >>> >>> I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system. >> >> This is a function of initramfs-tools and not of grub. >> >> Add "text" to the kernel cmdline. > > This is actually a feature implemented in the initscript of some display > managers. E.g. /etc/init.d/lightdm has this > > if grep -wqs text /proc/cmdline; then > log_warning_msg "Not starting Light Display Manager (lightdm); found > 'text' in kernel commandline." > [...] > fi > > Last time I looked into it this feature wasn't supported by all display > managers, most notably kdm.
I'm an idiot. I was thinking "this isn't right" when I wrote my previous email. This used to be available in gdm (and perhaps still is) in Debian. I first discovered it in Ubuntu and did quite some head-scratching because I wouldn't work in Fedora (where there's a runlevel 3 anyway) and I couldn't find it in the initramfs. And then I found it in the gdm init script... Since lightdm's developed by Ubuntu perhaps "text" is usable in non-Debian--based distros. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Szu=9oxgysq9ssg16mazs7u2hxrwtzxsxmw+j-p0sa...@mail.gmail.com
