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Before rmmod'ing fbcon you have to deattach the console. Not sure how (chvt 2?).

But at least in my "plan" any menu (backupmenu, multiboot, bootmenu) and obviously the console will be strictly text-mode (framebuffer).

If you read the backupmenu script you'll see it's a huge mess due to all the text2screen calls and updating the cursor position. That's messy, and hides the actual functionality.

I would do backupmenu (as well as bootmenu) with a compiled C program (using slang or ncurses). Quick, self-contained (even statically compiled if needed) and with that "native" text-mode look we all love