On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 13:30:18 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Is the break in communication between Grub and the kernel, or > the kernel and systemd? I'm not best qualified to answer that, > because my graphical.target.wants includes solely udisks2.service, > and I suspect that I don't even depend on that. Is a DM startup > placed only in graphical.target.wants, and not multi-user.t.w?
I don't know either. I boot without a graphical Display Manager by the simple expedient of not having one installed. hobbit:~$ runlevel N 5 hobbit:~$ systemctl get-default graphical.target It acts just like multi-user.target when there isn't any DM to run.