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Boot-up detailed status of everything

Asked by Linux Is Pure Pwnage

Back when I had Fedora Core, my computer booted up and showed the status of everything in text. I do not want a fancy bar telling that Ubuntu is starting up.

For an example of what I want:
Network [OK]
NFS [OK]
udev [OK]
Screen setting [FAILED]

and so on and so forth. I guess what I want to see is called a textual interface of the operating system boot. I perfer to see everything instead of just a bar. I am sure that if a person who has had any experiance with Fedora or Redhat can help me. Thank you.

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Linux Is Pure Pwnage (nospam5555) said : 		#1

I would like to at least have a "details" arrow so I can see all the information / boot status of everything next to the graphical bar.

Computer details:
Ubuntu 8.04 i386 Hardy Heron
AMD Athlon 1800+
GPU: nVIDIA GeforceFX 5900XT overclocked to 395MHz

I just want to see everything instead of graphics. Textual detailed status. Not really a command line. More like a non-modifyable command line Terminal of everything going on.

In Fedora all the [OK] things would be green and the [FAILED] would be red. Is there anyway I can turn this feature on and perhaps turn off the graphical boot / start up?

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Best nglnx (nglnx) said : 		#2

In order for the splash screen to show a bit more information you have to disable the quiet kernel option in Grub.
To get a completly textual boot befora reaching the login screen you have to disable splash in Grub.

You cannot however have a details arrow like in fedora, since they are using a different program (usplash for Ubuntu, rhgb for Fedora).

Be careful when changing grub, since it can render your system unbootable. Test things by, at boot, in the Grub boot screen, selecting the kernel you want to boot from with the arrow keys, typing e to edit and b to boot . This changes are not permanent and will disappear once you reboot. Only after you are sure, will it make sense to make the changes permanent and even then only if you feel confortable editing the boot menu configuration file.

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Linux Is Pure Pwnage (nospam5555) said : 		#3

Thanks nglnx, that solved my question.