A while back I asked https://askubuntu.com/questions/291819/why-doesnt-tty7-show-a-prompt-with-no-display-manager. It didn't really get answered, which is OK, because it's just theoretical and not very pressing.

That said, having used Stack Exchange for a while since I asked, I'd like to ask for the question to be moved to Unix & Linux. How can I do this? Should I just delete and re-ask?