<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> claudiu vlad pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/5/2007 2:58 PM: <blockquote cite="mid:1191610722.7590.11.camel@apollo" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="GtkHTML/3.16.0"> you may press ESCAPE when Grub is loading and then press E when over the first line and then press END and you might delete the word QUIET at the end of that line. this will be temporary. when rebooting the setting will revert to default also if you want to make it permanent, you might then edit this file : /boot/grub/menu.lst and look at the last lines of it for the word QUIET On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:11 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote: <blockquote type="CITE"> <pre>I like recovery mode because it shows me what's going on during booting (and in a nice typeface and screen resolution! how can I get these for my console?). But I don't know what command will take me to "regular mode". Will someone please tell me? Thx </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> You misunderstand. See my reply to James Tappin. Thx. </body> </html>