tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post2458124336148520841..comments2023-06-26T12:07:16.902-04:00Comments on Mark the Carp: Upstart TrickeryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-84999635058470916012009-12-02T18:53:24.555-05:002009-12-02T18:53:24.555-05:00@BugeyeD Actually I'm testing this from an upg...@BugeyeD Actually I'm testing this from an upgraded Lucid. I believe the original Karmic installation was alpha5. Afaik hidemenu is default for a desktop installation. <br /><br />Oh, and posting this from Lucid ;)Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01814720758191830366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-33647245528845641062009-12-01T21:18:05.189-05:002009-12-01T21:18:05.189-05:00@Mark: is your karmic install a fresh one? mine wa...@Mark: is your karmic install a fresh one? mine was, and i have no idea how an upgraded system might differ, though i'm sure they do. how did hidemenu get set?BugeyeDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-26361085282355809222009-12-01T13:45:53.088-05:002009-12-01T13:45:53.088-05:00@handheld car: the purpose is to start a GUI when ...@handheld car: the purpose is to start a GUI when I want it to not automatically on bootup. A side affect is faster boot time. My Virtual Box is setup to used bridged networking.<br /><br />@BugeyeD: I didn't try your first suggestion yet as my grub2 is set to hidemenu and I haven't rtfm'd enough to find out how to change that. The second method start X in "low graphics mode"Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01814720758191830366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-88190334755308166282009-11-30T15:42:27.272-05:002009-11-30T15:42:27.272-05:00So this starts Ubuntu in a terminal? Speeds up boo...So this starts Ubuntu in a terminal? Speeds up boot time? Something else?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-4421452742040907772009-11-30T12:39:14.451-05:002009-11-30T12:39:14.451-05:00blogger.com apparently wraps text so that the comm...blogger.com apparently wraps text so that the commands are a bit hard to read ... <br /><br />for the first method, everything prior to "update-grub" goes on the first (echo) line.<br /><br />for the second method, everything between 'mv' and 'touch' goes on the 'mv' line.BugeyeDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-79450683842849247232009-11-30T12:36:25.389-05:002009-11-30T12:36:25.389-05:00these two methods have been verified to work on 9....these two methods have been verified to work on 9.10; neither of the mess with upstart, but both were found by looking at upstart's grub config:<br /><br />first method:<br /><br /> echo >>/etc/default/grub 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash text" '<br /> update-grub<br /> reboot<br /><br />another method:<br /><br /> cd /etc/X11/<br /> mv BugeyeDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4961770922177864356.post-72075413200553260272009-11-29T18:54:00.658-05:002009-11-29T18:54:00.658-05:00I've been wanting to shorten my boot time as w...I've been wanting to shorten my boot time as well, and aside from buying an expensive solid-state drive, I could learn how to parallelize the boot-up processes.<br /><br />Also, I have my Virtual Box networking set to bridged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com