booting lipus lite to a terminal

Hey everyone, this will be my first post on AA1 user.

I was wondering how to boot up linpus as a terminal only. I would like to have the option at startup and be able to select "boot to terminal" from the grub menu.

Also how do I get the grub menu to display on boot up. I have tried to put a # in front of the hidden menu command but that does not seem to work. my current grub.conf file looks like this.


default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu

title Linpus Linux RCD
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/bzImage ro root=LABEL=linpus vga=0x311 splash=silent loglevel=1 console=tty1 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-splash.img

thanks

 

Googled this and found these links at http://www.linuxquestions.org but haven't tried them.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html

 

I've been stalking the same game. At this point in time I tend to focus on the file /etc/inittab. Toward the end there's a list of ttys and all are commented out except number one and that one shows an option --autologin user tty1. So, throwing out the autologin and uncommenting the other terminals seems to be indicated. But there's probably more to it than that. The first (uncommented) line sets the mode to 5. Mode 5 normally is 'Multiuser with Networking, X11', all the bells and whistles. Next follows a list of mode set/reset scripts and the one for mode number 5, by the looks of it, is a custom script (rc.5, when all others use rc). Using rc for mode 5 instead of rc.5 should bring mode 5 in line with a more normal behavior. But first one should take a close look at both rc and rc.5 and try to understand what they do. Also at rc.S. That'll be my next move--no the second next. My next move is to make a system recovery USB stick because the SuSE Linux doc I have been consulting says: Don't muck around with the init scripts unless you know what you're doing. Which I don't.
With multiple terminals available one should be able to select them with alt-F(terminal number) and get a login shell. Which goes to show that there's more to it than meets the eye, because alt-F2 is being used for another purpose.

Frederic