Confirmed after a user in #ubuntu reported this after using the mini.iso
to install a basic non-GUI system. I reproduced it.
grub2's default is to add 'quiet splash' to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.
When 'splash' is there /etc/grub.d/10_linux detects it and adds
"vt.handoff=" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_
This would be pretty good given that Ubuntu is becoming more server focused, it
should offer more sane defaults.
Will this change be made soon?
Today I installed Ubuntu 16.04.2 on some Fujitsu Primergy servers(mx130 s2 and
others), some of them needed just Ctrl+Alt+F1 to jump to tty1, others nee
I brought this up on IRC a few weeks ago and the consensus seemed to be
that we just need to drop the vt.handoff patches and move X.org to tty1;
that's what other distros have done.
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