Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early

[Tom H]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Daniel Dalton
<daniel.dalton at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:24:11AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>>
>> My 10.04 boots up to normal GUI, but with text boot messages, with
>> the following cmdline:
>>
>>       ro root=<device> splash=verbose noplymouth
>
> So do I replace
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
> with:
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ro root=/dev/sda splash=verbose noplymouth"

No
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=verbose noplymouth"
although I'd like to see where these values are documented. An initrd
built with initramfs-tools doesn't parse for them and "init --help"
doesn't list them.