{"id":183,"date":"2013-12-06T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:40:38","slug":"toggle-linux-bootscreen-splash-screen-to-verbose-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/toggle-linux-bootscreen-splash-screen-to-verbose-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Toggle Linux Bootscreen Splash Screen to Verbose Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to toggle Linux Bootscreen Splash Bar \/ Progress Bar to Verbose details?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is possible that you need to toggle your linux boot screen to display what exactly running in background instead of a splash screen. From CentOS\/RHEL 6, they use Plymouth to load a default silent boot screen that is graphically beautiful but doesn&#8217;t provide any verbose output. Sometimes the boot screen freezes and without a detailed output you may not be able to identity the root reason of the cause. If you are on the bootscreen where a splashbar is running, press the following keys together:<\/p>\n<p><code>ALT + d<\/code><\/p>\n<p>That would toggle the splash screen to detailed output.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you want to make the changes permanent, you need to edit the grub.conf file. Open grub.conf file using any of your favorite file editor:<\/p>\n<p><code>nano \/boot\/grub\/grub.conf<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Find the entry &#8220;rhgb&#8221; &amp; &#8220;quite&#8221;. And remove them from the lines start with &#8220;kernel&#8221;. Make sure, you keep the other things right, otherwise, it might cause a unbootable system. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p><code>kernel \/vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=069fecd9-6a3f-4ec9-ac69-e86fefa8dad4 nomodeset rd_NO_LUKS \u00a0KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM rhgb quite \u00a0pcie_aspm=off biosdevname=0<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Modified version:<\/p>\n<p><code>kernel \/vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=069fecd9-6a3f-4ec9-ac69-e86fefa8dad4 nomodeset rd_NO_LUKS \u00a0KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM \u00a0pcie_aspm=off biosdevname=0<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to toggle Linux Bootscreen Splash Bar \/ Progress Bar to Verbose details? It is possible that you need to toggle your linux boot screen to display what exactly running in background instead of a splash screen. From CentOS\/RHEL 6, they use Plymouth to load a default silent boot screen that is graphically beautiful but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/toggle-linux-bootscreen-splash-screen-to-verbose-details.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toggle Linux Bootscreen Splash Screen to Verbose Details&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,21,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}