On 2015-08-24 00:54, Brandon Vincent wrote:
> 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
> 

You can also use the grubby command (useful e.g in kickstart)

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args="quiet rhgb"

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olli