I want to boot my redhat8.0 in video mode,how to do it?

prad · 12-10-2002, 12:15 AM

I want to boot my redhat8.0 like mandrake 8.x, the users just can see the graphic screen and cann't see the procedure of the booting. What I should do?

zLinuxz · 12-10-2002, 12:26 AM

what do you mean by the "procedure of the booting" ????

do you meant all the stuff that come sup and says "OK" or "Failed" ????

I hope you don't mean that...cuz if you want that, you might as well go back to Windows,

prad · 12-10-2002, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zLinuxz
what do you mean by the "procedure of the booting" ????

do you meant all the stuff that come sup and says "OK" or "Failed" ????

I hope you don't mean that...cuz if you want that, you might as well go back to Windows,

I wonder if there is a switch to control the display of the procedure, you can see it or not. Do you know how to realize it ?

zLinuxz · 12-10-2002, 03:00 AM

you still haven't answered what do you mean by the "display of the procedure", what the heck is the procedure to you??

abrakadabra · 12-11-2002, 09:27 PM

Hi prad,
when you say the "procedure" do you mean that RH shows a graphic while is booting and doesn't show the boot process like in previous versions??

e.g.

bla, bla, bla [OK]
bla, bla, bla [OK]
mounting file system [OK]
more bla, bla, bla [OK]
you get the idea [OK]
etc............................. [OK]

I'm guessing this is what you don't see, but want to see.

Please explain.

prad · 12-11-2002, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by abrakadabra
Hi prad,
when you say the "procedure" do you mean that RH shows a graphic while is booting and doesn't show the boot process like in previous versions??

e.g.

bla, bla, bla [OK]
bla, bla, bla [OK]
mounting file system [OK]
more bla, bla, bla [OK]
you get the idea [OK]
etc............................. [OK]

I'm guessing this is what you don't see, but want to see.

Please explain.

bla, bla, bla [OK]
bla, bla, bla [OK]
mounting file system [OK]
more bla, bla, bla [OK]
you get the idea [OK]
etc............................. [OK]

this is what i don't want to see, I want to display a picture instead of it.

zLinuxz · 12-12-2002, 01:29 AM

go back to Windows then,

, this is the point of Linux.

Linux is a "TRANSPARENT" operating system in which you can always see what is happeneing...it does not put little pictures of things, like MS Windows, and hide what it is doing.

mainak · 12-12-2002, 10:54 AM

Sorry .. prad ..

Mandrake uses a Graphical Boot up procedure .. You can opt for a graphical screen or a text mode boot up procedure..

RedHat doesnt allow such things .. (as far as I know).

Donald1000 · 12-12-2002, 11:45 AM

I think Mandrake 8.2 is able to boot like this, or similar with a status bar.

trickykid · 12-12-2002, 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by zLinuxz
go back to Windows then, , this is the point of Linux.

Linux is a "TRANSPARENT" operating system in which you can always see what is happeneing...it does not put little pictures of things, like MS Windows, and hide what it is doing.

I think what prad is wanting to do is just block regular users from seeing all the boot up messages you see when starting up the machine, cause if they aren't admins and don't care, its really pointless for them to see all that stuff, not like they see something fail and go and try to fix it most likely, their gonna call IT instead..

Thymox · 12-12-2002, 12:09 PM

If you don't want to see lots of nice information scrolling across your screen, you can try passing the 'kernel parameter' of quiet. In Mandy <9 it surpressed almost all text output during bootup. In Mandy 9 it only surpresses the initial bit of text, so the blah blah blah [OK] bit still scrolls by.

Code:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=Mandy
        root=/dev/hda8
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdf=ide-scsi"
        vga=794
        read-only

HTH

zLinuxz · 12-12-2002, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by trickykid
I think what prad is wanting to do is just block regular users from seeing all the boot up messages you see when starting up the machine, cause if they aren't admins and don't care, its really pointless for them to see all that stuff, not like they see something fail and go and try to fix it most likely, their gonna call IT instead..

hmmm, never thought about it that way, you are very much correct. Thanks for that chris.