> I patched my own kernel (similar reasons) and used the splashutils > package and get a normal "silent" mode with a progress bar. F2 switches > out of it. There is, however, no way that I know of to switch back to > silent once I've been in verbose mode. With Bootsplah, one can do the following IIRC: echo silent > /proc/splash */ Christoffer Sawicki <qerub@home.se>