Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Karlo Prstac]

Steve Flynn wrote:
>
>
> On 10/10/2007, *Bart Silverstrim* <bsilver at chrononomicon.com 
> <mailto:bsilver at chrononomicon.com>> wrote:
>
>     Mario Vukelic wrote:
>     > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:33 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>     >> Two solutions.
>     >>
>     >> Turn off your monitor, or stop rebooting.
>     >>
>     >> Ooh!  Run your computer headless.  Then you can access it remotely
>     >> and
>     >> never see ANY boot messages.
>     >>
>
>
>  
> Right now, on this very list is a user saying he's installed 7.04 and 
> is faced with a black screen (presumably X has failed to start) but as 
> all he has is a black screen he has NO information on what he should 
> put in his request to this list asking for help.
>
> We can debate the pros and cons of boot screens versus boot messages 
> for months and never come to any consensus. In the meantime, a user 
> still has a totally black screen and no indication why.
>
> -- 
> Steve
> When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people 
> suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
>
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My share of the cake,

I go to Install linux from the boot menu(graphical mode),it starts 
loading so to say not really booting,then when the bar fill up,a black 
screen gets and nothing happens.