Press the Esc key as soon as the boot starts. That should stop the splash screen and show the messages.
Thanks, that's not quite what I'm looking for.
At this point, I'm still struggling, but have parts of it working. The messages scroll during boot, but the screen 'clears' when boot complete, and a login in prompt appears in tiny font in the upper left of an otherwise black screen. On boot, the font for the messages is unusably huge. But on shut down the font is perfect (small) for the scrolling shutdown messages.
My previous install (Stretch 9) booted as desired. I can't recall how I got it to that point other than it was a struggle too. It's been 9 years.
I ran systemctl set-default multi-user.target as root, and edited the grub configuration file as follows.
The Stretch install did not have a /etc/default/grub.d directory. The file was /etc/default/conf
On the otherhand Trixie 13.3 has a different structure. Trixie doesn't have a file at /etc/default/conf. Instead, it is at /etc/default/conf.d/conf
I hand edited /etc/default/grub.d/conf to reflect the Stretch file. It now looks like this (comment lines not shown):
Code:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0GRUB_TIMEOUT=5GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release && echo ${NAME} )`GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text"GRUB_TERMINAL=consoleGRUB_GFXMODE=3840x2160GRUB_GFXPYLOAD_LINUX=3840x2160And after each change to the conf, I ran sudo update-grub
The last two lines do not seem to have any effect. The
Statistics: Posted by inkind — 2026-01-24 22:56