On Tuesday 10 February 2004 1:15 pm, Kastus wrote:

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

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Is it possible to pause the boot process before the X-Windows logon comes up so as to read it. Then allowing the machine to continue to boot with maybe an odd pause here and there? ie similar to the Windows step by step confirmation accessed by pressing F8 on bootup?

Set PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/boot

That would, of course, cause a pause after each step, which could cause bootup to take a very long time. I wonder if it's possible to press a key with the effect "pause now". Paul Abrahams

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 5:49 pm, Administrator wrote:

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 13:28, Paul W. Abrahams ("Paul W. Abrahams" ) wrote:

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On Tuesday 10 February 2004 1:15 pm, Kastus wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:

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Is it possible to pause the boot process before the Set PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/boot I wonder if it's possible to press a key with the effect "pause now".

The XOff XOn keys.

So on a standard PC-ish keyboard, which are those? Ctl-S and Ctl-Q? Does the Pause key help? Paul Abrahams