How to get a simpler (text only?) startup sequence?

[Colin Law]

On 9 December 2012 16:17, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> ...
> There are still the long delays caused by plymouth waiting for a
> network that's not there (the hardwired interface) on my laptop.  What
> I see is 20 seconds or so of nothing, then a dozen lines or so
> of starting/stopping information, then:-
>
>     Waiting for network configuration
>     Waiting for up to 60 more seconds for network configuration
>
> These are new, never used to happen, and add a couple of minutes or more
> to the boot time.

Do you have an obsolete entry in /etc/network/interfaces?

Colin