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Sander M

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Registered: 2016-06-15

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

Hi all,

Very first post at these forums. Installed Arch using the excellent wiki. And then 3 times over just to get comfortable doing so And because it's fun and educational
Now settling in with xorg, desktop Mate and LXDM for handling the graphical login.

My question to you is, how to enable the green OK's (preferably no red failed) messages during boot, just like the install media shows?
I now only see netctl is connecting to my wifi and some other messages about reaching LXDM and the preferred graphics/display.
Did some searching and googling, most hits just explain how to retain the boot log, but I would just like the booting to be verbose all the time.
Is that possible?

Many thanks for your time.

Last edited by Sander M (2016-06-15 21:37:41)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

Are you running Arch? The only reason I can think that you don't see the messages is that you're using some derivative distro.

Unless you configured it not to with plymouth or put quiet on the kernel command line yourself, not realizing what it did.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-06-15 17:10:50)

Sander M

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Registered: 2016-06-15

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

Thanks for your reply Scimmia.

Yes I am most certainly running Arch. Spend the last two months on this site and the wiki and used the June image for my last install.(after April and May release)

The system starts to boot after Grub. And initially shows this:

starting version 230
/dev/sda6 clean {files on system info}

Then the screen goes dark for a split second, followed by this:

[OK]  Started automatically generated profile by wifi-menu
[OK]  Reached target network
         Starting Permit user sessions
[OK]  Started permit user sessions
[OK]  Started LXDE display manager
[OK]  Reached target multi user system
[OK]  Reached target graphical interface

Then I reach the LXDM login prompt. The install image was a lot chattier

dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

Thanks for your reply Scimmia.

Yes I am most certainly running Arch. Spend the last two months on this site and the wiki and used the June image for my last install.(after April and May release)

The system starts to boot after Grub. And initially shows this:

starting version 230
/dev/sda6 clean {files on system info}

Then the screen goes dark for a split second, followed by this:

[OK]  Started automatically generated profile by wifi-menu
[OK]  Reached target network
         Starting Permit user sessions
[OK]  Started permit user sessions
[OK]  Started LXDE display manager
[OK]  Reached target multi user system
[OK]  Reached target graphical interface

Then I reach the LXDM login prompt. The install image was a lot chattier

So you have the -quiet option set ?

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

Sounds like you aren't seeing anything until KMS kicks in. Try setting that up to happen early (info in the wiki).

R00KIE

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Re: [SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

Be warned that showing all those messages can make the boot slower.

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Sander M

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Registered: 2016-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Show OK/failed messages during boot

So you have the -quiet option set ?

Thanks dockland, this was the solution to my question!
Did some reading in the wiki and found what you suggested.

I edited the file

/etc/default/grub

and changed the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

Then I ran

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

as in the beginners guide and my laptop was chatting away with [OK] messages all the way during boot as desired.

Thanks for your help on this

Be warned that showing all those messages can make the boot slower.

To be honest I can't tell the difference, but thanks for pointing this out non the less