Ubuntu boot screen

[Dennis Kibbe]

Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> writes:

> Dell loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on my new system.  One problem that it's had since I 
> got it is that it seems to hang on boot.  I can't really tell if it is 
> hanging.  The thing only displays a progress bar in its normal boot sequence.  
> The progress bar fails to progress. I get impatient and hit ctrl-alt-del.
> 
> When it comes time to load the operating system the second time I opt to do a 
> recovery boot.  The system boots to runlevel 2, prints the bootlog to 
> standard output.  I watch the text scroll by.  It stops for root to log on.  
> I log on and exit.  It launches X and waits for me to log in.
> 
> How can I get the normal boot sequence to display the boot log to STDOUT 
> instead of the fancy-yet-useless progress bar?

Hitting ESC or F2 during boot should get you what you want. A typical reason for the boot process to halt is waiting for a network conntect.

Fedora and Red Hat automatically switch to a more detailed view if something [FAILS]. I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't?

Dennisk
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