On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:46:54 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:28:19 -0700,
don fisher <hdf3(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> How can one disable Plymouth? I prefer to see the boot sequence.
[....]
You can't turn it off. However you can change things so that you
see
console output during the boot. Remove 'quiet' and 'rhgb' from the
kernel entries in /boot/grub/grub.conf .
[....]
> What is the best way to avoid using prefdm? I do not mind typing
> startx.
Maybe you want to boot in run level 3? If so you can add '3' to the
kernel paramters while you are editing grub.conf. It isn't clear what
you are really trying to do though, so it may be that switching to run
level 3 is not the correct answer.
Not to speak for the OP (I'm no mind reader! Would that I
were ...), but I asked a similar question here about F10 Beta on 11/2.07.
I was advised to "remove rhgb," which I took to mean "yum remove
rhgb," something I'd been doing for many, many releases, usually as the
first thing at completion of an upgrade or install, even before updating;
and it had always just worked.
F10 translated to "yum remove plymouth" -- which takes mkinitrd
and gdm!
(I may yet try it, followed immediately by "yum install gdm
mkinitrd" ....)
I have to say, again, that this business of having to know a
secret magic word (or keystroke) to do something is *not* to my mind a
way to conserve user-friendliness.
For my own part, I wouldn't be able to make head nor tail of 90%
of the boot messages if you brought them down a mountain to me on stone
stone tablets; but by watching long enough I have discovered several
helpful things.
Example : if I'm having connection problems for some reason,
success with ntp tells me I do have a connection this time, and failure
tells me I don't.
Half a dozen such things are more than enough to save ten or
fifteen minutes -- or to prevent losing a train of thought.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.