[systemd-devel] howto system-d non-graphical screen

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:59:30AM +0000, lux-integ wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2013 01:21:37 Kok, Auke-jan H wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:58 PM, lux-integ <lux-integ at btconnect.com> wrote:
> > > greetings,
> > > I am interested in learning to use systemd   with output to an
> > > alphanumeric character screen  (i.e. non graphical ).   Is this doable
> > > without delving into shell programming? Examples, guidance, hints,
> > > advice etc would be much appreciated.
> > 
> > I'm no expert on non-graphical output, but systemd itself is a
> > console/terminal application. There also is no shell code involved in
> > any parts of systemd.
> 
> Here is in excerpt:-
> [
> if they are shown at all, given we use graphical boot splash technology like 
> Plymouth these days. Nonetheless the information of the boot screens was and 
> still is very relevant, because it shows you for each service that is being 
> started as part of bootup, wether it managed to start up successfully or 
> failed (with those green or red [ OK ] or [ FAILED ] indicators).
> ]
> from this link
> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1.html
> 
> 
> I have looked at the documents on the systemd wikii.  The main page has a 
> proud representation of a console boot-screen showing the  [ OK ]'s etc. And 
> as I said, I am interested  NOT in using 'Plymouth/OR-other-graphical boot-
> splash-screen but a 'console-boot-screen'  with the  [ OK ]'s   and  [ FAILED 
> ]'s  etc.  Is there documentation available how this is done in systemd?

  It's not done "in systemd". The details are dependent on your distribution;
for example you can disable Plymouth graphical screen by removing "rhgb" from
kernel command line in bootloader menu.  Text boot is the default, graphical
parts are added by distributions.

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