Re: Boot problem : how to make it verbose ?
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 11:06:04 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> I installed Debian Squeeze on a multi-boot PC where Ubuntu is the first
> and bootable distro.
> Using GRUB2, the options 'nosplash debug --verbose' are used, but Debian
> freezes silently.
> How to make boot verbose to see what happen ?
>
> Hereafter the /boot/grub/grub.cfg :
>
> menuentry "test Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (on
> /dev/sda4)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
> insmod part_gpt
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd0,gpt4)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root b6ebc0b2-59cc-4ceb-81ba-c60d90be2fdc
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
> root=UUID=b6ebc0b2-59cc-4ceb-81ba-c60d90be2fdc ro nosplash debug
> --verbose
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
Are 'nosplash' and 'debug --verbose' parameters the kernel knows about?
Anyway, when GRUB comes up edit the entry (hit the 'e' key) to remove
them and then boot.
> The original entry in grub.cfg was created by update-grub under Xubuntu.
> From this entry was added in file /etc/grub.d/40_custom the option
> 'quiet( was replaced by 'nosplash debug --verbose' as a try to obtain
> verbosity.
> Then again update-grub to update grub.cfg file.
The usual place to put kernel parameters is /etc/default/grub. Just
removing 'quiet' should get you more verbosity.
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