Anthony Kamau wrote:
Morning list!
I have a situation that was brought about by a system crash during a yum update. The motherboard suffered a catastrophic failure due to busted CAPS. Lucky for me (or so I thought at the time), I had a spare, identical motherboard as the one that failed. I replaced the dud board and rebooted. This machine runs headless and is my primary (personal/home) mail server. I normally access the booting console via hyper terminal when I need to change boot parameters or just watch the system boot up!
Getting to the point, nothing comes up at all on the terminal screen. So I hooked up a monitor and keyboard (even a mouse) to check what was going on. What I noticed immediately was that the kernel screen selection screen did not appear! Instead, I just got a message at the bottom on the screen stating "Grub Loading Stage 2" or something to that effect. Straight from there, was the usual scrolling text up to the point where SELinux starts. Then nothing displays at all until the final login screen. Not even the "Nash" screen that prompts one to enter "I" for interactive start-up appeared!
Sounds like you have a serial console configured. Look in your grub.conf for the serial settings, disable them if your not using a serial console and want to see those messages. I believe you can also add another option to the kernel to show the messages in both locations though I don't recall the syntax off hand, it's been a long time since I did that. console=tty0 or something similar.
nate