John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John, I'm unclear if you are referring to the initial boot menu screen (I saw in later posts you are using LILO) being in graphics mode, or if you mean that you boot directly into the gnome or KDE desktop and would prefer to boot into a text-mode terminal session. If the latter, edit /etc/inittab as root and change the initdefault line to look like this:
id:3:initdefault:
No, No, No, none of this.
You can accomplish the same thing using a GUI tool but I don't remember exactly what it is.
If you are referring to LILO, I figured out under Redhat at work that if look in /etc/lilo.conf (which is a symlink into /boot), you see the following line:
message=/boot/message
I simply changed this to
message=/boot/message.txt
and created that message.txt file to contain something like "Select a kernel to boot (<tab> or ? for list, <enter> for default)". If you bring the original /boot/message up in an editor, you'll see it has all sorts of ANSI sequences that generate the LILO graphic.
None of this,
I want a vga=791 level boot upscreen, with FULL SCREEN WIDTH, BLACK AND WHITE TEXT BOOT SCRIPT WITH ALL THOSE "OK" or "FAILED" as the case may be.
None of that poor resolution Large chunky B/W stuff with the same text.
I had this all time from the beginning of my linux days.
It's just recently after replacing the deleted kernel that it has gone back to that sqashed into a small white window on blue background boot screen , and I don't like the presentation it's too small , too cramped a visual display of the boot script, to be of much use to me, and I would far rather have that normal vga=791 B/W full screen width boot text.
Why cann't I go back to what I had ?
John
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