buut paramerers for seeing the verbose boot process

[suvayu ali]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:23 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What happens is at boot, there is a fast scroll
> of text and suddenly, the screen appears as if it got powered off,
> but it also behaves that way when switching from bios text mode
> to graphics mode. It stays blank  (black) for about 2.5 or more minutes
> and then the Gnome login menu pops up.
> I never get to see the output of the boot process,
> so I can see what passed and what failed.

Kevin's prescription should have worked. I don't know what is wrong
but you can always look at the boot messages after the fact with

$ less -r /var/log/boot.log

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Suvayu

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