Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Philip Amadeo Saeli <psaeli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Under SuSE Linux 9.0 (freshly installed), though I've edited an entry in
the GRUB menu.lst, setting "splash=verbose", I still have to hit the
"F2" key to get the boot messages, otherwise only the progress bar
shows.  After the system boots, looking at the contents of /proc/cmdline
shows "splash=silent" in the cmdline!?!  Where does that come from???
I've looked everywhere and haven't been able to solve this one!

For reference, I've included relevant lines from my menu.lst.  The first
entry is the default one created by YaST during installation.  The
second one is the one I modified.  The problem is that when I select the
second entry, the boot splash is still silent.

Also, I have some questions about some of the entries in the GRUB
menu.lst to which I've not been able to find answers.  Any help would be
appreciated:

1. What does the "native" splash option mean (e.g., "splash=native")?  I
assume the other two ("silent" and "verbose") are as their names would
suggest.

2. What does "showopts" mean???  I've looked everywhere and googled
extensively and still can find no documentation on this one (I'even
grepped the entire kernel source tree and "string"ed all the grub
binaries looking for it!).  I only found -one- message (on the web) that
even addressed the term, but I couldn't really make sense of the
explanation.

I really wish that stuff like this would be at least minimally
documented!

Thanks,

Phil

----- Begin included menu.lst entries -----
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 10

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Linux
    kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=silent desktop showop
ts
    initrd (hd0,1)/initrd

title SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof
    kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=verbose desktop showo
pts
    initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
----- End included menu.lst entries -----

-- 
Philip Amadeo Saeli
SuSE Linux 8.2 (soon 9.0, if I can get it working correctly ...)
psaeli@xxxxxxxxxxxx