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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120314130015.GY4889@desktop