Fedora 12 bootup screen

[yzpdsg]

Hi,everyone!I've upgrade my fedora 11 to 12 by installtion DVD and everything is fine right now.Everything is there and the new system looks good.However,my boot screen is still the same with 11.How can I switch to the new screen?

[Gödel]

What new screen? The plymouth "charge" theme is still default in Fedora 12, or do you mean something else?

[yzpdsg]

In fedora 12 beta,I saw a new boot screen instead of a moving bar.In the center of the screen there came a fedora logo.Is this just for beta use?

[dd_wizard]

I'm not sure how you get that screen, I've had it from F12 alpha through final. Your description is accurate though.

dd_wizard

[Gödel]

Originally Posted by yzpdsg

In fedora 12 beta,I saw a new boot screen instead of a moving bar.In the center of the screen there came a fedora logo.Is this just for beta use?

No, that's the default plymouth "charge" theme, you should see it if plymouth is booting properly, perhaps modesetting isn't working for you. Try adding 'nomodeset vga=ask' to the boot options (hit 'a' at grub boot screen), and select a suitable VESA mode.

[Magickman]

I think I liked the bar in Fedora 11 better than the Fedora bubble. Anyone know how to change to verbose mode?

[Gödel]

remove "quiet" and "rhgb" from the boot options (or press escape during plymouth boot screen)


The bar is there when it's not working properly, the "charge" theme is supposed to show off what a great boot system fedora has

You can install other themes like spinfinity, try ''yum list plymouth-theme*', and do something like

yum install plymouth-theme-spinfinity
plymouth-set-default-theme spinfinity
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

(That's for F11, might have changed in F12 with dracut)

Edit: No, it hasn't changed in Fedora 12, same instructions (I think you can do steps 2 & 3 in one go with "plymouth-set-default-theme spinfinity rebuild-initrd")

[charnik]

Originally Posted by yzpdsg

Hi,everyone!I've upgrade my fedora 11 to 12 by installtion DVD and everything is fine right now.Everything is there and the new system looks good.However,my boot screen is still the same with 11.How can I switch to the new screen?

same problem for me and i solved this way:

as root run

/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

[yzpdsg]

I've solved the problem by adding vga=0x316 into grub.conf.Thanks,everyone!

[vicsar]

Thank you for posting "your fix" YZPDSG it solved it for me as well, only I used vga=0x318 into grub.conf.

Thanks,everyone!

[yzpdsg]

Glad it helps.Anyway,the plymouth is awesome!!

[pfalmquist]

Where does one find the vga mode values documented. I assume they are a function of the video card and/or the monitor one has.

paul

[vicsar]

pfalmquist If you follow the instructions above an use either vga=0x318 or vga=0x316 into grub.conf it will accept it, unless the option is not supported by your video card in which case the options available to you will be displayed.