Re: [CentOS] why flash the terminal interface when loading the linux system?

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:53:06PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

I think the OP is seeing the console login screen *briefly* between the end of the startup and the appearence of the GUI login screen. He probably has the (default) graphical startup (which shows a graphical progress bar screen instead of the 'Starting foo [OK]' lines on the system console. Once the startup finishes, the graphical progress bar screen goes away, the console login screen shows up (briefly) and then gdm starts the X server for its GUI login screen.

Note that with newer kernels and drivers which support KMS (kernel mode setting), the "flash" isn't necessary. You'll see this improved on RHEL 6.