To turn Plymouth off?

[Michael Cronenworth]

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Subject: To turn Plymouth off?
From: don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Date: 12/29/2008 12:28 PM

> How can one disable Plymouth?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup#User_Documentation

Also, pressing your ESC (Escape) key will display init text instead of 
the graphical progress bar. This is also a very high-traffic question on 
this list. Please search.

> 
> and the system would drop through to a text interface. Now it hangs. 
> What is the best way to avoid using prefdm?

Perhaps reading the prefdm script would give you some pointers. Looks 
like you will /need/ something like prefdm to kill plymouth. "startx" by 
itself won't cut it.