text boot, disable quiet boot & read the text?

[tashirosgt]

The way to see a text boot in FC 16 (by disabling the quiet boot) is covered by post #5 and #7 in the thread http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272264

1) Edit /etc/default/grub (I suggest you make a backup!) Mine reads

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=Linux/Fedora KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8"

I've removed "quiet" and "rhgb" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX

do this:
/sbin/grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

However, there is the technicality that this method may make an old kernel your default boot kernel. (It did when I tried it.) How do I set the default kernel to be the one I want?

Is the text from the text boot is saved anywhere. It scrolls by too fast for me to read and I don't want to pause the screen if it delays the boot. ( Also I haven't found a way to pause the screen!)

[george_toolan]

Try

dmesg | less

or /var/log/boot.log

[sea]

Usualy, it sets the current kernel as default.

However, if you booted your current kernel, made an update, which delivered a new kernel package, it might seem it had set an old kernel as default.
Just reboot to new kernel, and run again, the current kernel should be set to default

[tashirosgt]

or /var/log/boot.log

That's what I want. It's more concise than the dmesg output.

Usualy, it sets the current kernel as default.

It never sets the current kernel as the default. My current kernel was installed by a yum update.

I've tried it several times. I delete /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, note the current kernel with uname -a and run grub2-mkconfig as described above. I verify that a new grub.cfg is created. Then I shutdown and boot again. Everytime, the grub boot menu shows an old kernel highlighted and if I don't change the selection, the machine boots to the old kernel.

[sea]

Maybe you had changed the "default=" value in either:
* /etc/default/grub
* /etc/grub.d/00_header

[tashirosgt]

Originally Posted by sea

Maybe you had changed the "default=" value in either:
* /etc/default/grub
* /etc/grub.d/00_header

No, I haven't edited those files.

There is no specific value for the kernel mentioned in either one. In /etc/default/grub, the only relevant thing I see is the line "GRUB_DEFAULT=saved".

In /etc/grub.d/00_header all the values for defaults are kept in variables like $GRUB_DEFAULT.

In the thread I mentioned, one post says that updates modify the grub.cfg file by running grubby instead using grub2-mkconfig. So the grub.cfg produced by an update may disagree with what you get by running grub2-mkconfig.

This isn't a serious problem for me. I can take the original grub.cfg, which I saved and edit it by hand to make the machine text boot using the current kernel as the default. I'm just curious if there is a neater way to accomplish this.