[TriLUG] The "right" way to disable graphical boot

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:21:22 -0400, Brian Henning
<brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> At home, I hacked rc.sysinit and commented out the lines responsible for
> launching the graphical boot, but that doesn't seem like the "right" way to
> disable it.  I see that there's a condition for starting graphical boot,
> "$GRAPHICAL" = "yes".  How is that var set?  My guess would be a kernel
> parameter, perhaps that I could set in grub.conf.  Am I right?  I've never
> messed with kernel params before, so I'm sort of in the dark on how to make
> this happen.

The parameter to the kernel is "vga=[somevalue]".  Remove that parameter
and the kernel will boot in text mode instead of framebuffer mode.

Cheers,
Tanner