[plug] Need permanent Kubuntu boot to command line. Correction...

[Jim Householder]

On 13/06/11 13:43, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> Those changes result in a black screen with a blinking cursor in the
>> upper left corner.
>>
>> Ctrl-Alt-Del powers down as per configuration,  and Alt-Fn will switch
>> to a functional VT.  Otherwise the keyboard appears to be ignored.
> Ah, sounds like plymouth (the boot splash system) is leaving you on the
> VT that kdm would otherwise be using. Try removing 'splash' from the
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable at the top of /etc/default/grub.
>
That was it.  Thanks Jeremy.