Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Thanks to all for your help. I will now remove "quiet" and see what > happens. I always try to get some documentation *before* making > modifications to important files so as to avoid unwelcome side effects. welcome. apoligies that grub.org does not have full documentation in their grub manual. i pulled it for other reasons and never read all of it. this is a part of my multi boot of /boot/grub/grub.conf on /dev/sda1; #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=10 ## splashimage=(hd1,8)/grub/splash.xpm.gz ## hiddenmenu password --md5 $1$m4adxwf$nTJScRjFrELXaus4SZ6M24. ### title fedora 8 (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) sdb6 root (hd1,5) kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro \ root=/dev/sdb6 devfs=nomount resume=/dev/sdb2 acpi=force vga=794 # rhgb quiet initrd (hd1,0)/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img ## title Fedora 11 (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586) sdb8 root (hd1,7) kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro \ root=UUID=6c93a3b0-4258-4af9-b47a-d6720450268b acpi=force vga=794 ## rhgb quiet initrd (hd1,0)/initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img ### title Scientific Linux SL 5.2 (2.6.18-128.7.1.el5) sda1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro \ root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda2 acpi=force vga=794 # root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.img ## title Scientific Linux SL 5.2 (2.6.18-128.7.1.el5) sdb10 root (hd1,9) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 ro \ root=/dev/hdb10 devfs=nomount resume=/dev/hdb2 acpi=force vga=794 # root=LABEL=/12 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.img ### note that each 'kernel' line ends with 'vga=794'. on a 19" crt, this gives me a screen size of 52 rows x 120 columns, which makes for easy watching of boot and shutdown progress. [ '\' added to for email line break. ] -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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