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