[Novalug] Fedora boot progress bars

[John Place]

removing gdm is a bad idea IMHO...

I *think* if you edit:
/boot/grub/menu.lst

and take "rhgb" out of the kernel line

you will get the effect you want..

Thanks
John

On 03/29/2011 12:12 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>
>>> The lines aren't really representative of anything other than
>>> progress. It's entertainment while the system boots, nothing
>>> more.  But it is pretty :)
>> Actually, there is an attempt to time the boot and set the
>> progress according to that information, q.v.
>> /var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration. So it's meaningful but not
>> necessarily 100% reliable... as is the case with just about any
>> boot progress out there. :-)
>   	I get very tired of jabbing escape keys to eliminate it;
> but "yum remove plymouth" gets this :
>
> Removing:
>    plymouth               i686   0.8.4-0.20100823.7.fc14   @updates
> 177 k
> Removing for dependencies:
>    dracut                 noarch 006-6.fc14                @updates
> 146 k
>    gdm                    i686   1:2.32.0-1.fc14
> @fedora/$releasever 4.6 M
>    gdm-user-switch-applet i686   1:2.32.0-1.fc14
> @fedora/$releasever 130 k
>    kexec-tools            i686   2.0.0-39.fc14.1           @fedora
> 610 k
>    plymouth-gdm-hooks     i686   0.8.4-0.20100823.7.fc14   @updates
> 171
>    plymouth-scripts       i686   0.8.4-0.20100823.7.fc14   @updates
> 11 k
>    plymouth-utils         i686   0.8.4-0.20100823.7.fc14   @updates
> 12 k
>    pulseaudio-gdm-hooks   i686   0.9.21-7.fc14             @updates
> 385
>    system-config-kdump    noarch 2.0.4-7.fc14              @fedora
> 977 k
>
>   	I suspect that gdm is something I do want. Is it safe to
> tell yum to go ahead, and then do "yum install gdm"?
>