Tom Diehl on 4 Oct 2005 11:48:03 -0000 |
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Dan Widyono wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:34:06PM -0400, gyoza@comcast.net wrote: > > Oh, heh. It is better to have the text anyway. > > But, but, it's so **pretty**! :-) Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. > And you don't have to see all those scary messages that you can't read fast > enough. > > I have some servers redirecting kernel to serial console during boot (had not > yet figured out, in the RedHat 7.2 days, how to make it display to *both* > serial console *and* fb during boot, and haven't bothered trying to figure it > out for RHEL yet). Whenever it would hang during boot, I wouldn't know why > if I was using the regular console. At least with RHGB they're smart enough > to pop back to text mode if there's an error. That is the plan but it does not always work. Sometimes it simply hangs the machine. I used to report problems with rhgb in hopes of getting them fixed. Now I simply never install the package. It was to much trouble for me to be debugging something I do not find useful. I prefer the text. Regards, Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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