On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:38:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 22 Oct 2011 at 11:45:23 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> I am trying to get a more paused bootup messages by appending >> "boot_delay=1000" to the kernel line in GRUB2 edit mode (I'm adding >> this at the "linux" line, after "ro quiet"), but when I press F10 to >> continue with the boot sequence it hangs at: >> >> *** >> (black screen) >> >> Reading a command list >> >> Loading Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae ... >> Loading initial ramdisk ... >> *** >> >> And stays in there, I have to hard-reset the system to make it working >> again. >> >> Any hints? Running wheezy here. > > Works here with the same kernel (and 3.0.0-2-686-pae) and 10 for > boot_delay.
A "boot_delay=10" does the same effect than nothing (i.e., no delay at all). > I hadn't the patience to wait over 15 minutes so didn't try > 1000. :) My maths are nowadays at a very rusty state but I thought that "1000 ms = 1 s" or did I miss something? ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.10.22.13.48...@gmail.com
