{"id":2666,"date":"2017-04-19T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2017-04-19T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:20:54","slug":"verbose-boot-for-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=2666","title":{"rendered":"Verbose boot for Centos 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To disable graphical booting in CentOS 7, some suggest that we need to edit file \/etc\/default\/grub as follows:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\"># vi \/etc\/default\/grub<br \/>\nRemove \u201crhgb quiet\u201d from the line beginning with \u201cGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX\u201d, as shown below:<br \/>\nGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=&quot;crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=centos\/root rd.lvm.lv=centos\/swap&quot;<\/div><\/div>\n<p>However, this does not work.<\/p>\n<p>THE RIGHT WAY:<br \/>\nThe following will produce the results we are looking for:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1 &#8211; Using the \u201cplymouth-set-default-theme\u201d command, see what the current setting is. By default, it is set to \u201ccharge\u201d. I edited file \/etc\/default\/grub, so it is currently set to \u201ctext\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\"># plymouth-set-default-theme<br \/>\ntext<\/div><\/div>\n<p>However, this setting does not give us verbose boot at startup.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2 &#8211; To produce verbose booting, we need to set this value to \u201cdetails\u201d:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\"># plymouth-set-default-theme details<br \/>\n# dracut -f<\/div><\/div>\n<p>(This will take a minute before your prompt is returned as it rebuilds the cache).<\/p>\n<p>Double-check your settings:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\"># plymouth-set-default-theme<br \/>\ndetails<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Step 3 &#8211; Test your changes by rebooting your system:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\"># shutdown -r now<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To disable graphical booting in CentOS 7, some suggest that we need to edit file \/etc\/default\/grub as follows: # vi \/etc\/default\/grub Remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}