On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On the case of Server and Minimal if you never want to use a
graphical
>> interface and are happy with just the text console you can add a
>> blacklist so the GPU driver isn't loaded on boot. This
>> can be done by ...
> Adding module_blacklist=vc4 instead of blacklist=vc4 to the
kernel command
> line allowed me to get to the login prompt.
Would a more general solution be to add:
video=640x480
to the kernel command line, to try to wrestle the video
choices down into something low-res enough that a GUI install
is prevented from being offered?
-- Russ herrold