Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Ralph Sanford <rsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:06, Ken Schneider wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Amadeo Saeli <psaeli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:30:33 -0800
> Subject: Re: [SLE] GRUB menu.lst entry questions (boot splash verbosity)
> 
> > * Joe Morris (NTM) <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx> [2003.12.28 08:52]:
> > > On 12/28/2003 02:51 PM, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
> > > 
> > > >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.  
> > > >
> 
> Have a look at:
> 
> /usr/share/doc/packages/suselinux-adminguide_en/html
> 
> It has a rather large section on grub.
> 
> Ken

I found that attempting to directly edit the grub menu did not work.  

Go to YaST -> System -> Boot Loader Configuration -> Edit Configuration
Files and then change the Linux entry from splash=silent to
splash=verbose.  This makes the change stick.

HTH
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