Verbose boot (Solved)

[cstrike77]

Is there a way to turn verbose boot back on? On the 2011 Sept edition I installed the only things I see loading are after non-interactive startup. In the grub setup I did see quiet, can this be changed to verbose to see what's actually happening?

Thanks all!

EDIT:

Well, got home yesterday and the darned lappy booted into Linux, god only knows.... It sure would not boot here...

Took quiet out of the grub line and it works like a champ, thanks guys!

[AndrzejL]

Yes it can be changed.

If You want to see it only once press ESC while in Plymouth and You will see what's hiding under the plymouth. Sometimes when You have speedboot enabled in the file /etc/sysconfig/speedboot even tho You press escape You won't see much as the system is starting X server to fast. Change the speedboot option to no and reboot system. This will cause the system to boot slower but You will be able to see more information while booting.

#possible values : auto / yes / no / probe
#probe should only be used on kernel commandline : speedboot=probe
#to reset speedboot status for current kernel
SPEEDBOOT=no

If You want to have the verbose mode permanently on edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the value for splash to verbose.

title 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs root=UUID=1d57d4c0-ecdc-4f85-b997-bbaac4313b16 splash=verbose vga=791
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs.img

This should turn off the plymouth completely.

Let us know does it helps.

Regards.

Andy

[AS]

Yes it can be changed.

title 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs root=UUID=1d57d4c0-ecdc-4f85-b997-bbaac4313b16 splash=verbose vga=791
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs.img

In addition to Andy suggestion, you may want to remove the option quiet which was added on more recent ISOs (otherwise you will have a black screen at first ...)

AS

[AndrzejL]

Thanks as - I have never seen this option so far but good to know.

Andy

[cstrike77]

Thanks as - I have never seen this option so far but good to know.

Andy

Thanks guys,

I'll try both tomorrow, tonight I have to re-install linux again, had this problem now twice that it gets so far in boot and stops. Last time it got to the alps driver and hung, now I can't tell.

BTW, I had no plymouth screen when booting.

Thanks again

[Dragynn]

I have an old laptop that won't shutdown or boot with plymouth enabled, no idea why, don't much care though as i'm not big into plymouth.

FYI just to put it in print for others that might read this thread: EZswitch from the repo is a very tiny and seriously useful gui way to switch plymouth themes, you can easily switch from any theme you have installed to a detailed text boot (and boy do my machines boot faster that way, serious difference).