On Monday 21 April 2008, Trent Shipley wrote: > Dell loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on my new system. One problem that it's had since > I got it is that it seems to hang on boot. I can't really tell if it is > hanging. The thing only displays a progress bar in its normal boot > sequence. The progress bar fails to progress. I get impatient and hit > ctrl-alt-del. > > When it comes time to load the operating system the second time I opt to do > a recovery boot. The system boots to runlevel 2, prints the bootlog to > standard output. I watch the text scroll by. It stops for root to log on. > I log on and exit. It launches X and waits for me to log in. > > How can I get the normal boot sequence to display the boot log to STDOUT > instead of the fancy-yet-useless progress bar? > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
modify grub and where it says splash, change that to nosplash (or remove it) then execute grub-install /dev/hdx to install the new bootloader --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
