How disable 4.0's GUI boot?

Cian Duffy myob87 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 10:27:10 MST 2005


> On my mandrake boxes, the friendly frenchies feel it's the correct thing -
> boot up with no clue of what the heck is going on. I yank out bootsplash as
> soon as I can. And then I turn on the framebuffer and make sure it boots at
> 1024x768 at least.

I like being having a GUI boot that I can revert to the CLI, ala BeOS.
Most of the time I don't need to see a huge amount of burningly white
text on a black background, but its useful for debug purposes

But not having a 1024x768 framebuffer is a crime. And that is why I
stopped using FreeBSD.

Cian

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