Complete graphical boot for Fedora

[Stuart Sears]

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Oliver Leitner wrote:
> 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
> http://www.shells.at
> 
> On 10/19/05, *Gangaraju* <gangaraju.chowki at host-technology.com
> <mailto:gangaraju.chowki at host-technology.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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.


Oliver, I think you're missing the OPs point here.
AIUI he wants to stop the initial text display, and just jump straight
to the graphical boot screen.
I'm not sure this is possible, without writing a great deal of code
yourself. Grub has to uncompress the kernel and exec it first, so you
may have to change grub to hide this behind a fancy progress bar.
I have to say that for novice users the idea of an *optional* graphical
shutdown process is pretty cool, though...

:-)


Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX
who will save us from this plague of unrepentant top-posters?
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