DSL 2024 in text-only mode

[giorgino]

Hi all; I'm writing from Italy and I'm trying to run DSL2024 in a QEMU box under Linux. I would like to boot in text-only mode, but if I search the ney I can find old tutorials, referring to the old DSL. In muy configuration I have a root user and a normal user; I would like to start in terminal mode choosing what user needs to be activated, as normally in other distros.

Please, can you help me showing which conf files I have to modify?

Thano you all,
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Giorgino

[grindstone]

For DSL 2024 it's helpful to start searches in Antix forum; much information is there (perhaps more appropriate), but here's a start.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/cli-boot/

[John]

Unfortunately, there is a bug in the runit version antiX that doesn't allow it to boot directly into tty. If I figure out a work around I'll incorporate it into DSL 2024.

[John]

I have a work around for this, expect it in the next release.

[grindstone]

Just a heads-up if this ends-up being an issue later for someone (and conflicts with what's already been done here), looks like an init-specific option was just added upstream.  The last entry in the table of antiX boot parameters was just added. 

Boot to console

This option lets you boot antiX to console login rather than to the X desktop. Use one of the following, depending on your init system:

Code:

single     On runit systems only. Boots into the runlevel defined in the runsvdir /etc/runit/runsvdir/single.
3     On sysvinit systems only. Boots into the third runlevel defined in the /etc/rc3.d folder.

 
Discussion is here if @John happens to be around and wants to talk to upstream.  After a quick look, I still haven't found where you detect the 3 for DSL...not in grub.cfg and nothing different in /etc/runit/runsvdir/single or solo...might be missing it.  FWIW.