RH9 boot messages

GlobShim · 10-21-2003, 10:30 PM

Hello all,

I installed RH9 no problems, but when I boot it up, or shut it down I don't get any messages as I know I should. When I boot it up I get some message that ends with "Uncompressing Linux...Ok, booting kernel" and nothing changes until X starts up. When I shut down I get a black screen when I shutdown. I know that I could go find these and its not a big deal, but I would like to have something to watch when the computer boots.

Thanks

unholy · 10-22-2003, 12:33 AM

I'm just guessing as I got rid of redhat for suse, but can you press F3 or something for verbose output?

porous · 10-22-2003, 09:54 AM

not sure it will help ,,

just try the diffrent terminals during boot as well as shutdown

crtl+alt+(F1-F6)

"hope youll see some messages "....

hw-tph · 10-22-2003, 09:59 AM

My guess: Framebuffer problems.
Exactly this happens if you have a non-compatible framebuffer mode specified in your grub/lilo configuration.

Håkan

GlobShim · 10-22-2003, 01:46 PM

Ok, F3 and Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12 don't do anything during boot, but after it has finsihed booting I can get back to the screen I see during boot with Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 and F8-F12. Ctrl+Alt+F1-F7 gets me back to X.

So about the framebuffer, I found a grub folder in boot (I use grub) and it has a file called menu.lst. This looks like the closest to a config file that I have found, but it has nothing involving framebuffers. It looks like the same file is also in /etc/grub.conf Where can I find that framebuffer stuff?

DMR · 10-22-2003, 01:58 PM

In Redhat, menu.lst is usually just a symlink to grub.conf, which is why they "look" identical.

Can you post the line from that file which starts with "kernel"?

(BTW- F2 is the key which gets you into verbose mode at boot. I don't know if that applies to all distros/versions, though)

GlobShim · 10-22-2003, 02:44 PM

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/

The F2 doesn't do anything either, guess it doesn't apply to RH9.

DMR · 10-22-2003, 03:11 PM

The default setting for grub is to not display boot messages. At the end of your kernel line in grub.conf, try putting the following:

splash=verbose

GlobShim · 10-22-2003, 09:35 PM

Thanks for your help, but no dice. This is the new line:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ splash=verbose

It is still doing the same thing as before.

DMR · 10-22-2003, 11:41 PM

Mmm... crap.

Sorry- I've no other suggestions at the moment, but if something comes to mind I'll post it.