esc and rhgb

[Robert Moskowitz]

homburg at tips-Q.com wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:40:05 -0600
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Several people have suggested that you can switch to the
>> details when rhgb is running by typing esc. That does not
>> work for me. I can hit the details tab but not esc. Where
>> have I gone wrong? --
>>     
>
> That is what is in the release notes and it didn't work for
> me either.

I had to press esc a number of times for it to 'take'.

>  One of the first things that I always do with a
> new system is to eliminate the "hidden" and rghb from
> grub.conf. I really think that this should be the default.
> Hiding the output on a new install is really
> counter-intuitive - for me. I have never quite understood
> this obsession with a windows-like boot process.
>
> Sometimes I think that the worst enemy of Linux is trying
> to make it too much like Windoze.
>
>