CentOS - Oct 2005 - Boot hanging with rhgb

Hello

	I have installed Centos-4.1 and love it over Fedora or Mandriva.  A big
thank you to all the hands and minds that have put together a very good
distribution.  However I do have a problem when I boot with rhgb enabled
in grub.conf.  The system hangs at the end loading IE(when the bar is
full).  I can get bye in either of two ways. The first is to switch to a
virtual console before the system hangs and the other is to remove the
rhgb option in grub.conf.  I would ask for any comments on how to
trouble shoot this problem so it can be fix.  Or if it is not important
please tell me and I will remove the option from grub.conf.  Thank you
in advance for your help.

Dick Rutledge

.  I would ask for any comments on how to
> trouble shoot this problem so it can be fix.  Or if it is not important
> please tell me and I will remove the option from grub.conf.  Thank you
> in advance for your help.
>
Both. Basically rhgb launches x once the system thinks it can do so to
finish the boot procedure with a pretty look that users like. It's
completely unecessary and I usually remove it because it causes
problems with the nvidia driver module on kernel update etc.  You can
safely remove 'rhgb quiet' from the lines in grub.conf with no
problem. Does X work normally once you get it? Are you using any
special third party drivers for it like nvidia or ATI that might be
causing issues? Check the logs (/var/log/messages and
/var/log/Xorg.0.log) to see if anything is happening in there that you
can track down.


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