Graphical boot isn't so graphical

Anthony Joseph Seward anthony.seward at ieee.org
Wed Jul 23 18:09:44 UTC 2003


Just go to console 1 during the graphical boot.  The text stuff is still
there.

Tony

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:39, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 00:29, Thomas Corriher wrote:
> 
> > Benjamin Vander was correct.  It is the graphical booting which is 
> > more likely to cause boot problems, or allow serious problems to go 
> > unnoticed during the boot process.  It is a bad design decision 
> > from a technical perspective.  However, it is good marketing and 
> > seems more welcoming to newbies.  I guess it is all a matter of 
> > priorities.  I suppose as long as RH makes reconfiguring it 
> > reasonably easy, then this is not a major problem for anyone.
> It's not too bad - if your system crashed, during the next boot sequence
> your partitions would not be cleanly unmounted and rhgb would not be
> triggered.
> 
> Guess I'll have to start making it a habit of booting into runlevel 3
> after making changes, e.g. after adding services...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michel
> 
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