* Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> [010217, 16:08]: > Ennio-Sr composed on 2017-02-01 21:21 (UTC+0100): > > > After upgrading to Stretch I'm unable to find a way to boot with no GUI. > > I tried setting 'GRUB-GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text" in /etc/default/grub, > > moving to 'K01gdm3' all 'S??gdm3' instances in /etc/rc?.d, but nothing > > happens. > > You haven't provided your meaning for "text mode". >
What I ment was to receive (after booting) a login prompt in tty1 console; then, if and when I need it switch to a new tty and call 'startx' Michael's reply was perfect: it did exactly what I wanted ;-) > Greg and Michael's replies answer how to stop booting to a GUI login manager. > > If instead what you wish is to avoid seeing any GUI effects, but do want to > see boot messages from kernel and scripts as init proceeds, you need to > ensure they have not been turned off by quiet or splash parameters on the > kernel cmdline. Also, Plymouth may have been installed, which is a more > sophisticated form of GUI splash during boot. Maybe all you need to do is > purge Plymouth, and/or eliminate quiet and/or splash from your kernel > cmdline (purge them from both GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= and > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= in /etc/default/grub, then run update-grub). I'll keep in mind your suggestions: for the time being I'm not sure I understand them well. Many thanks to you all (Greg, Michael and youself) for the rapid and efficient answers. Regards, Ennio P:S: I'm answering your message from mutt (in a console) from my laptop as I messed up with postfix on main PC and my messages are being bounced by the list. Now I've got to understand how to solve this new problem... -- [Perche' usare Win$ozz (dico io) se ..."anche uno sciocco sa farlo. \\?// Fa' qualche cosa di cui non sei capace!" (diceva Henry Miller) ] (°|°) [Why use Win$ozz (I say) if ... "even a fool can do that. )=( Do something you aren't good at!" (as Henry Miller used to say) ]
