Console only boot option

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:22:23 -0400
Anthony Jenkins via freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I have a patch against base that adds an option "Console" to the Boot
> Options sub-menu to prevent a GUI desktop port from being started:
> 
>     1. Back to Main Menu [Backspace]
>     2. Load System Defaults
> 
>     Boot Options:
>     3. Safe Mode... Off
>     4. Single User. Off
>     5. Verbose..... off
>     6. Console..... off
> 
> 
> When set to "On", a kernel environment variable "boot_console" is set to
> "YES"; else "boot_console" is unset.  A GUI desktop startup script in
> ${LOCALBASE}/etc/rc.d/ should read this variable and, if set, should
> 
>   * Ignore a command to start the GUI
>   * Unset "boot_console" (this allows one to manually start the GUI
>     after initial boot).
> 
> I'm open to suggestions about semantics to make this functionality
> clearer (e.g. "Console..... On" is not intuitive).
> 

Text[-only] Console perhaps? Or Non-GUI Console?

-- 
Gary Jennejohn