On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Scott Robbins wrote:
To view the startup, when you boot, hit any key, then hit e as in edit (I think--otherwise, just use the arrow key to get down to the line beginning with Linux and when you highlight that line hit e to edit.
At the end of that line you will see rhgb quiet. Remove those two words, hit enter, which should take you back the main menu, and then hit b for boot. (I'm doing this from memory, but I think there are instructions on the screen once you get to the e for edit part.
Here is the last bit of the startup output, copied by hand: Starting abrt daemon OK user had insufficient privilege Starting crond OK Starting atd OK Starting virt-who OK Starting libvird daemon OK Bridge firewalling registered tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.6 tun: (C) 1994-2004 Max Krasnyansky maxk@qualcomm.com device virb0-nic entered promiscous mode virb0: starting userspace STP failed, starting kernel STP Ebtable v20 registered lo: Disabled Provacy Extensions _
At that point the watch mouse cursor appeared. The text stayed. After going back and forth between virtual erminals, the mouse cursor was gone.
Does this help with diagnosis?