I have Suse 9.1, using Grub. If I select Linux from the Grub menu and hit F3 to select "verbose" (instead of "silent"), I get all the nice bootup messages. I would like it to do that every time.

I went in and edited my menu.lst file and changed splash=silent to splash=verbose. No effect. I still get the status bar and no boot messages. So, two questions, please:

1) How do I get it to default to the full verbosity?
2) Is there a nice list somewhere of the commands that are accepted after the kernel line in the menu.lst? I found a reference somewhere to the tree documentation, so I installed the kernel docs. Now, if I could find them...

TIA,

Try to reinstall grub from Yast, after you've made the changes. Maybe creating a new ramdisk (mkinitrd) will do the same job. I suppose this is not working because of a missing 'verbose' background in the ramdisk, though I am not sure.

Try to disable splash and splash_early in Runlevel editor

Thanks, both. I think I can handle re-installing Grub with Yast (well, after I figure out how to get out of it--it crashed last night during an install and is hung 51% of the way through).

On the ramdisk, do I type mkinitrd from the command line?

And where is the Runlevel editor?

To create a new ramdisk, become root and type mkinitrd on command-line.

The Runlevel Editor is at Yast -> System -> Runlevel Editor

But I guess this will turn off splash completely (only text, no colourful background).

Well, before I tried all of that, on a whim, I tried just putting "verbose" in the command line manually. It worked. So I am going to try that before ripping everything apart. Just changed the menu.lst file, so we will see.

Following up...

Yes, that was the problem. Need to put 'verbose' in the command line all by itself (rather than, or in addition to, splash=verbose).

All better. Thanks, folks.