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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