The scrolling bar of doooooooooom

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue May 20 14:08:39 UTC 2008


Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 22:19 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > I simply press Ctrl+Alt+Fx (can't remember what x is, probably 1)
>> 
>> yes...
> 
> Actually, the really informative output is on F8 (basically same as a
> traditional syvinit boot, or like booting with recovery option)

Damn, you're right of course.
> 
>> > during boot.
>> 
>> Well, that would be like removing "splash".
> 
> Yeah, but without mucking around in menu.lst and you can do it quick
> during boot if there is a problem.

Absolutely.  I was just trying to point out that the OP wanted _more_
information but didn't say how much, so he may want to remove the "quiet"
option too.
-- 
derek





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