Newbie: kernel/init messages at boot times ?

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Thursday 29 November 2007 22:51:43 Ulrich Grün wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm used to SuSE and Debian for quite a long time. With that
> distributions, when I start (and power off) the computer, I get
> the kernel and init messages on tty1. With (K)Ubuntu (7.10), this
> feature has been disabled. I already changed the kernel options
> in 'menu.lst' and removed the 'silent' option (which resulted in
> a little information, but not exactly what I'm looking for)
>
> Furthermore, when I press <alt>F2 (and others) during boot time
> and return to tty1, that screen has become black. All the other
> tty's are black as well and I cannot log in into bash of one of
> the tty's.
>
> Has anybody figured out how to solve this? It would be ideal if
> the messaging was like Debian/SuSE.
>
> Thanks,
> Ulrich.

In /boot/grub/menu.lst remove  'quiet' and 'splash'. My line ends 
with: "ro vga=791"  (in order to make the scroll-by slower).

Kaj Haulrich.
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