Re: MC in console

[Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> To: reynirhs mi is
> From: Yury V. Zaytsev <yury shurup com>
> Subject: Re: MC in console
>
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 19:07 +0000, reynirhs mi is wrote:
> > So wrote Yury V. Zaytsev:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, I have no clue on how to check this out.
> >
> > If you are on a Linux computer and see Tux the Wonder Penguin on the
> > console screen while the OS is booting, it's a frame-buffered console. They
> > use a graphical mode to emulate a text mode.
>
> Are you kidding :-) ? I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and the boot process is
> completely hidden behind usplash.

There must be a way to disable the splash screen, and boot 
in text/psuedo text mode, so you see your services starting?

Try passing 'nomodeset' as a kernel parameter at boot time.

See if you can disable the splash screen thing?

HTH

Keith Roberts

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