Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early

[Tom H]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2012-12-10 07:11 (GMT-0500) Tom H composed:
>>
>> Anyway, AFAIK, the variables on the "linux" line in "grub.cfg" aren't
>> grub-related. They're used by the initramfs, init (for example
>> "init=/sbin -v"), or the kernel (for example "ipv6.disable=1").
>
>
> ...which explains why Grub docs would be the wrong places to look. splash=
> is probably as old as non-framebuffer boot, at least a decade. noplymouth is
> probably as old as Plymouth, something like 4 years IIRC.

Did I say anywhere that I only looked at grub docs?!

I would've liked to see some reliable documentation; if you don't have
links to post, forget about it!