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Can't seem to boot to cli

Open JonZso opened this issue 5 years ago • 7 comments

I'm using Pi4 w/ 4GB Ram.

I want to boot to cli as desktop isn't as useful as i wanted. I'm using: MHS-3.5” RPi Display(MHS3528)

Just wanted to use command line instead of gui

JonZso avatar Dec 30 '19 13:12 JonZso

@JonZso So apologies if this isn't the issue you're seeing, (i'm on a 3B+) but I was having an issue with booting to prompt as well. Turns out as part of the installation process it launches the program fbcp via /etc/rc.local. All I had to do to fix it was edit the file via sudo nano /etc/rc.local and commenting it out by adding a # before the line fbcp &.

In my (VERY) limited testing it doesn't seem to affect anything if you're only booting to a console. I'm sure there's a far more elegant way to fix this but I feel as if with how responsive the developers have been and how poor the quality of the scripting is in general for this I don't think it'd be worth anyone's time to do a PR fixing it.

Regardless, I hope this also fixes your problem!

(NOTE: If you have no other access to the pi except through the screen, you can also switch to another console by hitting ctrl+alt+F2 (or F3, F4, etc.) This only seems to affect TTY1. From there you can straight-up just kill the process as well to get TTY1 back.)

dr-s-mcgraw avatar Jan 19 '20 09:01 dr-s-mcgraw

Thanks @dr-s-mcgraw i will give it a check and let you know

JonZso avatar Feb 20 '20 08:02 JonZso

@dr-s-mcgraw , Bit late but i managed to try what you suggested and it worked! Thank you very much

JonZso avatar Apr 01 '20 21:04 JonZso

Hello @JonZso

I've same issue but with my 3.5” RPi Display (MPI3501). I'm using Pi B+ (Rev 1.2)

I can't boot to cli.

I don't have fbcp & in the rc.local file and no result with CTRL+ALT+F2 (F3, F4, F5...)

Could you help me please ?

BullzLabz avatar Jul 24 '21 06:07 BullzLabz

Same issue here! With Ubuntu server 20.04. Nothing I do allows the screen to boot and/or show cli. Starts with white screen, then goes to black. Can ssh in fine.

skylarweaver avatar Dec 25 '21 22:12 skylarweaver

Thanks to #305 I have been able to get the terminal to work on ubuntu Mate and have enabled booting directly to terminal with these suggestions: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/solved-boot-raspberry-pi-2-image-directly-to-terminal-console/1569

But still am unable to do so on ubuntu server 20.04 — please help.

skylarweaver avatar Dec 25 '21 22:12 skylarweaver

Same problem. I can't get it to work on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (command line only). Did anyone manage to solve it?

chacalgbi avatar Aug 12 '22 11:08 chacalgbi