How Do I Set Start Up At Verbose Mode

[gramvaz]

How do i set the start up to always boot at verbose mode instead of the loading progress bar without having to pres esc every time?

[sdousley]

if it is the same as my SuSE 9.1 system, go into /boot/grub (if you use grub)
in the menu.lst file there should be a linux option.
In this option, there should be a line similar to:
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda7 showopts

see the splash=silent? Change that to splash=verbose. and then reboot, and should do it for you.

[jeremy1701]

Mandrake uses lilo as it's default boot loader, but the option for bootsplash is still the same. After you edit, make sure to run the command

lilo -v

To save the changes.

Good Luck!
Jeremy