F10 -- getting behind the boot screen

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:55:10 -0500
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> So what is the magic keystroke to reveal what is going on behind those 
> progress bars.

I think maybe the ESC key does it, but a more permanent option is
to take rhgb off the kernel options in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file
(that is always somewhere around the 1st or 2nd thing I do after
installing a new system :-).