Boot Log

[Robert Locke]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:42 +0100, Rob Kettle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> anyone know what happened to the boot log messages that we used to get
> in FC3. They seem to have been lost since upgrading to FC4 ?
> 
> Are there any plans to get this working again ?
> 
> Regards
> Rob 

If you are talking about all those driver messages and then all the
little "green" OK's, they still exist, they are just hidden.  Take a
look at your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and you will note a pair of new
arguments being passed to the kernel "rhgb" and "quiet".  The latter,
"quiet", suppresses the driver/kernel initialization messages from being
displayed on the console but can still be viewed after the boot
in /var/log/dmesg or by running dmesg.  The other, "rhgb" is why we get
the little blue bar showing the progress of the boot, though you could
click on "Details" in that window and get your "green OK"'s back....  Of
course, you could also remove both of those arguments from the kernel
and things will be as they were...... :-)

--Rob