Ok so I tried alt+d it switched over to text mode. I didn't see any error it booted right to a black screen. I can ctl+alt+f2 to get to another screen and I still get the "a start job is running for wait for Plymouth boot screen to quit" On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 5:55 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/16/2017 02:01 PM, dominic adair-jones wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 4:55 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Alt+d will switch to the text output of the init process. Press that > >> combo as soon as you see the boot animation. > > Not understanding. At what point in the boot process should I be doing > that > > ... as soon as you see the boot animation. When you see the grey > screen, use Alt+d on the keyboard to switch to the text output. There, > you will typically see text that describes why the boot process isn't > completing. > > > and why would I need to do that at all? > > Because long ago the debugging text was deemed confusing, and a > graphical wallpaper was placed over it. > > > Seems like it's something wrong > > with the Plymouth and plymouth-scirpt packages. > > That's unlikely. Those packages are probably just hiding the actual > problem. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >