To turn Plymouth off?

Marcelo Magno T. Sales mmtsales at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 18:40:02 UTC 2008


Em Seg 29 Dez 2008, don fisher escreveu:
> How can one disable Plymouth? I prefer to see the boot sequence. I
> recently had a "blue screen of death" for about 10 minutes while my
> disks were doing a mount limit forced fsck. Beauty is in the eye of
> the beholder:-)
>
> Something also changed between F9 and F10 with upstart. In F9 I was
> able to comment out the lines in /etc/event.d/prefdm associated with:
>
> exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
> and the system would drop through to a text interface. Now it hangs.
> What is the best way to avoid using prefdm? I do not mind typing
> startx.

You can press ESC while the computer is booting or, if you want to 
disable it permanently, edit the line that loads the kernel in 
/boot/grub/grub.conf and remove the option rhgb from it.

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Marcelo




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