How disable 4.0's GUI boot?

[Longman, Bill]

> 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.

Have you ever noticed that it's done right on the install? The virtual
console on F12 is the syslog output. You can just switch over there and
watch to your heart's content. But again, the lame-o 80x25 text screen is
enough to make me pitch this computer lifestyle and go back to potato
farming....or maybe raising some lonely dental floss.