John wrote:

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:23 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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David Hlácik wrote:

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Hi, how do i enable boot splash (graphical boot) in CentOs5.1 ? I am in init 5, i have updated from minimal install to GNOME using yum groupinstall.

Thanks in advance!

# yum install rhgb

Make sure you have 'rhgb' as a kernel parameter for each kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst that you want to have a graphical boot for.

If you want graphical boot you probably qant to use the 'quiet' kernel parameter too.

I've never seen much need for the kernel messages at boot anyways, they scroll by so fast the only way your going to see them is on a serial console with scroll back buffer. There is always 'dmesg' to see these after start up.

-Ross

Maybe I am not understanding his question? I am under the impression when you group install the gui and change the boot init level to 5 it will boot in graphical? Has worked for me on sever console only servers.

Aye, but you will not get the graphical start-up screen unless 'rhgb' (Redhat Graphical Boot) is installed. Since the OP had stated he is in runlevel 5 I assume he is getting the graphic login (gdm or whatever), but had to deal with seeing it start up in text mode. Also since he updated from minimal install he probably didn't have the luxury of having anaconda pre-select rhgb for him.

Also, for the OP, I think you need to install the bitmap fonts for the 'rhgb' to work properly. Don't know why upstream didn't make a dependency of them for 'rhgb', oh well.

-Ross

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Hi guys, yes really all i needed was to add rhgb parameter to grub.conf. Basically i was doing minimal network install first time. Then later installed using yum groupinstall, GNOME Desktop graphic enviroment group of packages and also others. What i found is that GNOME Desktop graphic environment as a dependency installed also rhgb rpm package, but it was on me, to add rhgb to grub.conf as there was not script to do it. I believe that it is done by anaconda installer for the first time and if the rhgb package or graphic environment is not selected during install, then later it is on you to add rhgb parameter (and also quiet optional) to grub.conf

Thanks!

D.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker@medallion.com wrote:

John wrote:

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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:23 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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David Hlácik wrote:

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Hi, how do i enable boot splash (graphical boot) in CentOs5.1 ? I am in init 5, i have updated from minimal install to GNOME using yum groupinstall.

Thanks in advance!

# yum install rhgb

Make sure you have 'rhgb' as a kernel parameter for each kernel in /boot/grub/menu.lst that you want to have a graphical boot for.

If you want graphical boot you probably qant to use the 'quiet' kernel parameter too.

I've never seen much need for the kernel messages at boot anyways, they scroll by so fast the only way your going to see them is on a serial console with scroll back buffer. There is always 'dmesg' to see these after start up.

-Ross

Maybe I am not understanding his question? I am under the impression when you group install the gui and change the boot init level to 5 it will boot in graphical? Has worked for me on sever console only servers.

Aye, but you will not get the graphical start-up screen unless 'rhgb' (Redhat Graphical Boot) is installed. Since the OP had stated he is in runlevel 5 I assume he is getting the graphic login (gdm or whatever), but had to deal with seeing it start up in text mode. Also since he updated from minimal install he probably didn't have the luxury of having anaconda pre-select rhgb for him.

Also, for the OP, I think you need to install the bitmap fonts for the 'rhgb' to work properly. Don't know why upstream didn't make a dependency of them for 'rhgb', oh well.

-Ross

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