<div>On 10/10/2007, Bart Silverstrim <<a href="mailto:bsilver@chrononomicon.com">bsilver@chrononomicon.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. >></blockquote><div> </div>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. </div> -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0