xbob Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Perhaps I am just a dork, but I really enjoy seeing "verbose mode" messages scroll by on those rare start ups and shut downs, my old skool Red Hat roots poking through. Is there a way I can keep the blue background (which I find strangely soothing and makes the verbose mode messages easier to read on my LCD) while always getting "verbose mode" without hitting the escape key? I won't be surprised if it's somewhere right in the management tools, but I haven't stumbled over it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 7, 2004 Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Yeah... I beleive you can just turn off the graphical boot. Its in the boot options in the mcc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 Yep, that killls the GUI stuff but leaves a balck "Mandrake Stars" background. Anyone know what file to edit so I can shift that back to my soothing blue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 10, 2004 Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 with graphical boot enabled, don't you just change splash=silent to splash=verbose in the bootloader? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2004 (edited) I don't see that in Lilo, where would it be? Had some time to look this evening, would that be the splash=auto line n bootconfig? Edited July 11, 2004 by xbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Bumped out of curiosity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) Sorry...somehow missed that you've replied.....I hate these new boards.....like the old, old much more .....no telling how many post I've missed :unsure: ' but what can we do to resolve unanswered post?' ....ummmm....use good forum code? I mean, the dumb thing can't even tell you what post are new w/o you telling to mark post as read and return...bla bla bla.....rant.....I guess this is progress? You have to, which is better and smarter anyway, edit the /etc/lilo.conf file manually. Change; splash=silent to splash=verbose oh, auto 'anything' always sucks ;) Edited July 14, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) Sorry...somehow missed that you've replied.....I hate these new boards.....like the old, old much more .....no telling how many post I've missed :unsure: ' but what can we do to resolve unanswered post?' ....ummmm....use good forum code? I mean, the dumb thing can't even tell you what post are new w/o you telling to mark post as read and return...bla bla bla.....rant.....I guess this is progress? You have to, which is better and smarter anyway, edit the /etc/lilo.conf file manually. Change; splash=silent to splash=verbose oh, auto 'anything' always sucks ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As usual you are spot on, that worked perfectly. I don't know why I kept missing it, the first time I installed 10 on this machine it picked Grub as the bootloader and even though this time I know it used Lilo I kept looking at Grub (perhaps I should start sleeping at night?). I hate to do it, but I have to...that did it for boot up, what abuot shut down, can I force it to use the blue background instead of the black one? Thanks bvc, you always have solid answers. Edited July 14, 2004 by xbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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