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