this progress bar is as far as i know the standard on fedora core, you must have commented out certain parts of your grub.conf to make it disappear. i am not currently running grub, but a good guess would be to look into the grub.conf for lines like "graphical boot" or "boot splash", and check the grub man on how to set things there... Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff <a href="http://www.shells.at">http://www.shells.at</a> <div>On 10/19/05, Gangaraju <<a href="mailto:gangaraju.chowki@host-technology.com">gangaraju.chowki@host-technology.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> HI, AS WE ARE BOOTING THE SYSTEM WITH FEDORA LINUX-2.6.9 AFTER SELECTING AT GRUB MENU ,FIRST THE TEXT MESSAGES LIKE title fedora (2.6.9-fedora) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-fedora ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-fedora.img Uncompressing the kernel Nash version-...etc welcome to fedora Starting udev Initialising hardware storage network audio THEN GRAPHICAL BOOT(X SERVER) STARTS , ALL TEXT MESSAGES ARE HIDDEN AND ONLY A IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR IS SHOWN. BUT I WANT TO BUILD MY KERNEL AS WHEN SELECTING AT GRUB MENU IT SHOULD NOT SHOW ANY KIND OF TEXT MESSAGES,BUT ONLY GRAPHICAL IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR LIKE WINDOWS OS . AND THE SAME IDEA I WANT TO IMPEMENT WHILE SHUTDOWN. I HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD ME . PLEASE LET ME KNOW -- Warm Regards, Gangaraju.Chowki Software Engineer, Host Technologies Ltd, Banjara Hills,Road No:12, Hyderabad. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> -- Oliver Leitner