Tom Diehl on 4 Oct 2005 11:48:03 -0000


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[PLUG] Re: rhel problems


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
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