How disable 4.0's GUI boot?

Brian McKee besomethingelse at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 24 11:31:56 MST 2005


Well, the Mandrake boot automatically switches to show you the console 
output
if any error shows up, so you don't have to do anything.  Seems like the
best of both worlds for most people.  (Of course I still like listening 
to
my modem dial and connect so what does that say about me?)
Brian

On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 12:27  PM, Cian Duffy wrote:

>> 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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