boot in text only?

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any way to permanently boot in text only?

without hitting the esc key?

instead of that unpleasant green staring in my face?

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I haven’t tried it, but I believe the ‘splash’ service does this:

As root:
chkconfig splay off

Good luck.

hellina wrote:
| any way to permanently boot in text only?
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| without hitting the esc key?
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| instead of that unpleasant green staring in my face?
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Simply do the following:

  1. Open YaST and login with the root password.
  2. Open “Boot Loader” under the “System” heading
  3. Select your default boot option
  4. Press the “Edit” button
  5. Find the “Optional Kernel Command Line Parameter” field
  6. Add “init 3” to this field
  7. Press “OK”
  8. Press the “Finish” button

Now, when you boot into OpenSUSE (the default boot option), the splash screen will load and once the loading is complete, you will load the CLI instead of the X-Server, which stops your desktop environment from loading. Just be careful when changing and using this option, because I noticed when I tested it, the DVD in my CD/DVD drive did not automatically mount when I loaded the X-Server from the CLI (after I booted into the CLI). So, it seems that switching between the CLI and X-Server may have some minor issues, but other than that, it worked out very smootly.

Hope that works for you, too! :slight_smile:

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thanks, but neither method works on my machine.

maybe i’ll just stick to the esc key routine.

unless someone else has another way?

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Which version of OpenSUSE are you using?

Can you also do me another favor?: can you please paste the value of the “Optional Kernel Command Line Parameter” field?

Thanks. :slight_smile:

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if you want to do this automatically, then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst as super user with kate or similar editor

on the main suse boot line, remove all the ‘boot options’ such as: splash=silent etc…

and just put: 3

that should do it

UnseenGhost’s way of editing was correct too

Better make a backup

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Try
yast2-system-system srvices (runlevel)
Select expert mode
Choose
3. Full multiuser with network
Click finish

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Hi,

Doublecheck that after doing what was suggested by conram, all the intended changes are in place by looking at the /etc/inittab file.

Specifically, search for a line with the keyword initdefault in it:

cat /etc/inittab | grep “initdefault”

id:3:initdefault:

If you have there 5 instead of 3, you are still telling init to start the X server at boot time.

Remember what these runlevels mean in essence:
3: multiuser mode + network subsystem
5: multiuser mode + network subsystem + X

Regards.

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any way to permanently boot in text only?

without hitting the esc key?

instead of that unpleasant green staring in my face?

I think hellina only wants to get rid of the green splash screen during boot, not boot into runlevel 3.

All thats needed is to remove ‘splash=silent’ from menu.lst entry. Now you’ll just see the boot text.

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sweet!

thank you guys,

removed: splash=silent

worked.