Complete graphical boot for Fedora

[Jonathan Rawle]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Gangaraju wrote:
> 
>> 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
> ...
>> 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
> 
> AFAIK, there is no way to disable those initial "Uncompressing
> kernel..." messages, even when using the graphical boot option (rhgb)
> 

The GRUB messages disappear if you append a vga= parameter to your kernel
boot parameters to open a framebuffer. Try adding something like vga=0x318
(I'm afraid I've never properly understood this parameter - perhaps someone
else can explain how to choose the video mode number).

Unfortunately the few remaining kernel messages and the udev line will still
show. rhgb uses X, and can't be started before udev. I guess you can remove
these messages using console=/dev/null, but then you'll get no console
messages during shutdown, for debugging, etc., either.

As for a completely graphical boot, you want Bootsplash/fbsplash instead of
rhgb. I suggest you take a look at the following:

http://www.bootsplash.org/
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/current/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151952


Jonathan

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