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" -- olli