Re: Ubuntu boot screen

Trent Shipley <tshipley@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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