On 2012/01/06 15:25 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
AFAIK, everything written to that file should be done by the time you see a greeter or login prompt. Same thing happens here though, so I'll bet this is a bug (designed to confound the already confounded).
Well, that would not surprise me. Seems like the quality of opensuse has greatly declined over the past few years.
Check this out though. To repeat the condition though, as the OS is booting and the text is flying by, the last two lines before the login prompt are: Level 5 has been reached, and some services (level 5) have bee skipped. (like kdm maybe ?)
In your attached snippit the only skipped I see is cpufreq, which AFAIK will always be skipped for your CPU type.
Anyway. I log in as root, and mind you now this is supposed to be level 5. After ;ogin I fire up MC and navigate to /var/log. I scroll down and find boot.msg. It has a pound sign in front of it like it is commented out. I try to open it with F3 to view it and MC gives me a big red message that there is no such file or directory, (not written yet?)
I previously told you to try to change /etc/sysconfig/boot's RUN_PARALLEL from yes to no. Just do it. You have separate partitions for both /tmp and /var, and this looks like evidence of "yes" trying to proceed with something that requires /var before /var is ready to use.
All you need to see initially is that it's there, then strike any cursor key to halt the timer. Then you have unlimited time to work with it.
Yes, that is the problem. I can't figure out how to see what is in there, even after reviewung grub man, info, and help, Guess I am just clueless.
When you see the screen stop being black when you boot it means Grub's menu is up or coming up. Once you hit a cursor key after the black is gone you should have all the time you need to look until you do see and can figure out where to type or backspace in the appropriate space below the middle of the screen. If at this point it's still hopeless, you can hit ESC and then <ENTER> to get the black & white Grub menu to try and see better what you can do. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org