Linda Walsh said the following on 02/05/2013 04:39 PM:
I wasn't able to get any bootup display booting from grub+initrd -- I couldn't figure out how to make it boot in a VGA text mode and it refused to display a bootup log on my VGA-compat, on-board display card (MGA200 on board -- only enough memory to display 1024x768 in 32bit or 1280x1024 in 16bit color (on a 1920x1200 flat panel that came w/system -- it's meant to be a text console, not a GUI).
I was only able to keep VGA text mode boot by using lilo.
Of course initrd ignores all those settings and tries to do it's own thing, which meant I got no output UNTIL I saw a login prompt (in runlevel 3).
Not very comforting -- didn't know if it was booting up or was hung...
Forced me back to lilo and no initrd, ever since -- which is proving to be a major problem now with recent ill-thought-out changes that serve no purpose.
Quite different from my experience though the ages: lilo, grub, grub2, initrd ... The only time I don't see the boot process display is if I choose a setting on the boot (lilo,grub,grub2) menu that explicitly hides it by using a splash screen and boots 'quiet"ly Linda, you've often posted about how you have a strange and anomalous system. Perhaps this explains some of it ... And no, I don't think the the changes we've seen are "ill-thought-out changes that serve no purpose". Perhaps they are not as well integrated into openSuse as they are into, say, Fedora, but they are well thought out if you look into the work that has been done with them. They may not suit you and your context, we can accept that, but since so many other people find they work and work well in other contexts that is no reason to insult the people who worked hard on them. I'm glad to be able to boot from LVM and get rid of that pesky, fixed size 'boot' partition. I *like* the fast and parallelized boot of systemd and the more rational way it integrates dependencies. I'm looking forward to the time my employer converts everything over since my experiences with them at home and on the machines I can control have been great - video cards aside! Maybe a change in employer will bring that about (or have me working with AIX or SAMBA on HP/UX again). But then I'm glad to have a closet of junk machines that I can experiment with in my spare time. -- More to the point, why would you want to have HTML emails other than to send spam advertising, attempts at hacking your system, having pretty pictures displayed in a software issues mailing list? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org