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RHEL 4 - Is there setting that will show the OS startup messages

C. Cellucci — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:54:05 GMT

Hi,
In RHEL 4 when the kernel boots it displays about 4 lines of messages and then a GUI screen takes over until a login prompt is displayed. If I want to see the startup details I need to press the space bar.

I've searched but I can not find any information to turn this booting GUI display off. Is there a way?

Thanks,

Re: RHEL 4 - Is there setting that will show the OS startup messages

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:27:36 GMT

Try using the "nofb" kernel option.

Edit /etc/grub.conf and add to the kernel options line

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ nofb quiet

Re: RHEL 4 - Is there setting that will show the OS startup messages

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:30:04 GMT

The real thing is that you have to remove the rhgb option (red hat graphical boot).

The quiet option hides the majority of boot messages before rhgb starts.

Re: RHEL 4 - Is there setting that will show the OS startup messages

Ross Minkov — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:35:31 GMT

...either that or just use "dmesg" after the system boots up to examine the kernel ring buffer.

Re: RHEL 4 - Is there setting that will show the OS startup messages

C. Cellucci — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:51:01 GMT

The modifications to grub.conf worked.

Thanks !!