Lost: pretty graphic boot-up

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Mon Jun 7 08:11:08 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 02:09, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > I installed FC2 on a spare partition to start playing with it, and when 
> > it boots up, it goes into a pretty screen with a workstation icon and 
> > circling arrows with an option to show more details. I swear I remember 
> > seeing this with FC1, but I haven't for a long time. With FC1, at the 
> > time when the pretty screen would come up, the screen goes blank for a 
> > few moments, then blank with the X-Windows X cursor, then briefly blank 
> > again before finally getting to the login screen. I figure I must have 
> > lost this feature with a kernel upgrade, and upgrade of gdm or some 
> > other software. Is there a way I get the pretty screen back in FC1?
> 
> Forgive the bad form for replying to my own post. The pertinent lines in 
> my grub.conf are
> 
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-awr1)
>          root (hd0,9)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-awr1 ro root=LABEL=/12 
> hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi rhgb quiet
>          initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-awr1.img
> title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5-1.358)
>          root (hd0,11)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi 
> hdd=ide-scsi rhgb quiet
>          initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
> 
I can't see why you wouldn't, but is the rhgb package still installed on
the system?

Doug





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