Permanent verbose mode for startup

Fnurr · 02-05-2005, 06:56 AM

Hello!
Does anyone know how to make the verbose mode for startup and shutdown the default mode for mandrake 10.1 official. My computer is a bit instable and sometimes crashes, do not think that it has anything to do with Mandrake, as I have the same problems in windows xp.
Anyway if the computer hangs during startup or shutdown I would like to see where the crash occurred.
/Kristian

XavierP · 02-05-2005, 06:59 AM

Your syslogs and the output of dmesg will give you that sort of info.

nafan · 02-05-2005, 10:01 AM

Alternatively, you can get rid of the nice bootsplash screen by adding splash=silent to your bootloader to get a text-mode startup. This will turn off the bootsplash screen and provide you with the same information as if you had pressed [ESC]. I don't know if there is any way to keep the blue bootsplash screen and have the boot messages displayed without manually pressing [ESC]

opjose · 02-06-2005, 01:21 PM

The easiest way to do this is to "edit" your Lilo.conf entries using the Mandrake configuration GUI.

In the editing page you can select the startup display mode. Instead of choosing any of the graphics modes select one of the text ones, e.g. 80x30 and hit apply.

That's it, no direct file editing needed.

Fnurr · 02-07-2005, 03:15 AM

Thanks for the info, I shall test it.
/Kristian