[Bug 504103] Re: textonly parameter has no effect when booting from usb-stick

[Alex Perez]

I just ran into this (maddening) bug, and found this when searching for
the issue. has this really not been resolved in the intervening 4+
years? In my case, neither 'textonly' nor 'text' seem to work.

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Title:
  textonly parameter has no effect when booting from usb-stick

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: casper

  I'm trying to boot from a usb flash drive without starting X. The
  manpage
  (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man7/casper.7.html)
  says that there is a parameter called 'textonly' - but when I add this
  parameter to the standard boot options list proposed when using the
  "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer" -> F6 (other options)
  -> ESC, it boots into the graphical mode.

  The original boot options list (hopefully without typos): 
  noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persisent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  My edited list: 
  noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persisent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- textonly

  On the other hand, if I use the paramater `text` instead of
  `textonly`, which doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, it seems to
  work. So is this just an error in the documentation (textonly = text)
  or does `text` something completely different I'm not aware of and
  `textonly` is defect?

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  $ lsb_release -rd

  Description:	Ubuntu 9.10
  Release:	9.10

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