Are we going to add a menu item for this?

It's pretty standard fare for distributions to have a "safe boot" or 
"text boot" option.

mary ding wrote:
> Kyle:
> 
> Need to do this to edit the grub menu:
> 
> splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm  - need to use d
> foreground d25f00  - need to use d
> background 115d93" lines  - need to use d
> and remove ",console=graphics" in kernel$ line from the GRUB menu - need 
> to use e
> 
> After that, hit return and use "b", this works for me.
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Miner wrote:
>> Kyle McDonald wrote:
>>> Ok so I tried some things...
>>>
>>> I tried using grub to edit the boot options, I:
>>>
>>> 1) removed the 'console=graphical' entirely - still get the graphical boot.
>>> 2) changed 'graphical' to 'text' - Screen gets all whacked out (all 
>>> sorts of short blue and orange horizontal lines)
>>> 3) got rid of the foreground, background, and splash lines - no effect 
>>> that I can see.
>>>
>>> I'm going to add -kv next.
>>>
>>> What else should I try?
>>>
>> Both #1 and #3 above together ;-)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>>   -Kyle
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kyle McDonald wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Booting from the CD went fine.
>>>> Installing went without error.
>>>>
>>>> When I rebooted, grub came up fine, and I chose the 1 menu option present.
>>>>
>>>> I really liked the new artwork, and the graphical boot is nice, but I've 
>>>> been sitting here 10 minutes or more, and the graphical boot is still 
>>>> covering the screen, and the little orange line is still going back and 
>>>> forth.
>>>>
>>>> What could it be doing?
>>>>
>>>> How can I figure out what it *is* doing?
>>>>
>>>>   -Kyle
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