On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 1:34 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Sl7.1, is there a more verbose start up graphic?  I always
> think the spinning wheel is frozen and press the "esc" key
> to see the old ok,ok,ok way of starting up.  Maybe something
> like Fedora has?

If you want to default to the text based startup you can remove the
kernel parameters "rhgb" and "quiet" from the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line
in /etc/default/grub.

Afterwards, rebuild the grub.conf file:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Brandon Vincent