Bill Nottingham wrote:
Casey Dahlin (cdahlin(a)redhat.com) said:
>>> Imho then the kernel should be patched to start booting graphically
>>> using tty7 and not tty1. Then you have no switching and do not
>>> disturb text-only machines.
>>>
>> Having the kernel parse its own commandline for a runlevel (a concept that has
>> nothing to do with the kernel, and doesn't even exist under some init
systems)
>> and then choosing to rearrange the tty init sequence based on that?
>>
> I don't think that's what he meant. I think he meant simply for tty7 to
> always be the active tty on boot. That's a bit easier to stomach.
>
If you don't add the bits I mentioned, then you'll get a blank tty7
when you boot in text mode. Which is presumably not what you want.
Bill
We could either offer a getty on tty7 (not too hard) or we could instead
add a small API to the kernel that would allow remapping which F key
went to which tty, so you could have ctrl+alt+f1 bring up tty7. That way
we could remap things so the user got the correct behavior.
We wouldn't have to actually /do/ this, but if the API were there, we
can tell the people who care to go figure it out.
--CJD