Non-graphical boot?

[mahousaru]

A good list can be found here:


http://cli-apps.org/


My fave has to be mutt and vlock, but there are too many to mention!

 

[Silent-Hunter]

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Thank you. I hope this works. I prefer listening to music without GUI running.

mpg321?

What's that? I use mplayer, or VLC with ncurses interface. Or mikmod.

mpg321 is a command line only media player.. think it pretty much only plays mpeg types of audio.

Yeah, I listen to .mod, .mp3, .ac3, .flac, .ogg, and all sorts of others. MIDI as well.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Create a file named autoboot.txt in root of FAT32/ext2 SD card with this content:

setenv bootargs ubi.mtd=4 ubi.mtd=3 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs rw rootflags=bulk_read vram=6272K omapfb.vram=0:3000K psplash=false

Place it into left slot and reboot.


X/xfce/minimenu is started by /etc/init.d/slim-init, remove symlinks from /etc/rcX.d if you want to run it manually (or use update-rc.d to do it for you).

OK, so I just type slim-init to start X then?

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Create a file named autoboot.txt in root of FAT32/ext2 SD card with this content:

setenv bootargs ubi.mtd=4 ubi.mtd=3 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs rw rootflags=bulk_read vram=6272K omapfb.vram=0:3000K psplash=false

Place it into left slot and reboot.


X/xfce/minimenu is started by /etc/init.d/slim-init, remove symlinks from /etc/rcX.d if you want to run it manually (or use update-rc.d to do it for you).

This doesn't work. I tried it.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Create a file named autoboot.txt in root of FAT32/ext2 SD card with this content:

setenv bootargs ubi.mtd=4 ubi.mtd=3 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs rw rootflags=bulk_read vram=6272K omapfb.vram=0:3000K psplash=false

Place it into left slot and reboot.


X/xfce/minimenu is started by /etc/init.d/slim-init, remove symlinks from /etc/rcX.d if you want to run it manually (or use update-rc.d to do it for you).

This doesn't work. I tried it.

Bump?

 

[notaz]

What doesn't work? Still getting graphical boot? X doesn't start?

 

[Silent-Hunter]

What doesn't work? Still getting graphical boot? X doesn't start?

Yeah, still getting graphical boot. Plus, sometimes X doesn't start. Also, now USB mouse doesn't work, even with hub.

 

[ZXDunny]

Bump. Anyone managed this? I'm finding the "super zaxxon!" splash screen to be quite irritating now and would like to just go back to a plain linux boot if possible?

 

[notaz]

try repacing 'quiet' with 'psplash=false' in /boot/bootmenu.txt /boot/autoboot.txt

 

[ZXDunny]

try repacing 'quiet' with 'psplash=false' in /boot/bootmenu.txt

You meant autoboot.txt? Bootmenu.txt just lists options for the boot menu


Edit: Yes, autoboot.txt is the place to do it. Now how do I remove it on shutdown?


D.

 

[notaz]

Yeah, autoboot. For shutdown, it still shows up on shutdown? It shouldn't, but if it does, you can try something like "sudo update-rc.d -f psplash remove".

 

[ZXDunny]

Yeah, autoboot. For shutdown, it still shows up on shutdown? It shouldn't, but if it does, you can try something like "sudo update-rc.d -f psplash remove".

Thanks, that's fixed it on shutdown too - much better


D.

 

[PaulForey]

I wanna quickly stab this info into the unofficial manual on the Wiki, but I'd also like to list the way to revert these changes. Obviously you can just re-edit autoboot.txt to replace "psplash = false" with "quiet". But would running "sudo update-rc.d -f psplash add" properly revert the shutdown splash screen?

 

[notaz]

Should be something like 'update-rc.d -f start 01 S . stop 32 0 1 6 .' based on psplash'es build recipe (untested).

 

[PaulForey]

I'll hold off adding it until that's verified then. I don't have a pandora yet, so I can't test it myself..