* Ralph Sanford
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.
If this is the case, I'd like to know exactly what YaST is doing - it -must- be editing some other config file somewhere. I'm one of those guys that just -has- to know how [and why, if possible] it works. I've been editing config files on quite a few different UN*X variants and derivatives for quite a while now and feel most comfortable in that mode. That having been said, I must say that SuSE's YaST combined with SuSEconfig are quite ingenious at addressing the quite thorny problem of keeping a very complex system consistent and manageable, esp when arbitrary pkgs are added and/or removed from the system. BTW, thanks, everyone, for all the info & suggestions! I'll figure this out eventually (and will document it somewhere for later reference for when I end up in a similar situation and have all but forgotten this experience ;> ). Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 8.2 psaeli@zorodyne.com