On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Where are they documented? > In particular: > * What does the quiet option do? > * How can I get the system to display messages during shutdown? > rhgb suppresses messages during bootup. Is there a similar > option for shutdown? If so what is it? > * In my grub.conf, timeout=5. Nevertheless the grub starts the > boot process after 3 seconds. What am I missing? > > Thanks - jon the quiet option suppresses most of the initial output before rhgb kicks in. unless you're having hardware problems you probably want it. i think the shutdown messages are still shown, but on a different virtual terminal. so <ctrl><alt>,<Fn> can be used to display them. n is probably 1, but i'm not certain of that. try increasing the timeout and see if it's still 3 seconds. if it is, you may have 2 timeout lines, or extra control characters. Regards, Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines