--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 05:55 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > Is there a way to make Centos 4.1 show you the shutdown > > steps it is executing without having to hit a key on > > the keyboard (such as in Fedora Core 2 or Red Hat 9)? > > Maybe ... > > If you edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf you will see the following entry > on the kernel line: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-xxx ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > (xxx is the actual version you have and smp, etc.) > > If you remove the rhgb and quite it will have the desired effect on > shutdown ... but it will also have an effect on startup. > > Also, during the shutdown, until X stops and shifts to console, you > won't see any of the steps, but all will show once X exits. > Yep! Tried it last night and that did the trick! :-) Thanks Johnny!