Introduced in Fedora 10 and refined in Fedora 11 is the graphical boot option known as Plymouth. Here’s how to get it working. This will run down how to do it via the GUI, but you command line folks will already know what I’m talking about.
Open up the Termainal and su to root. Then type:
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
You should have an entry that says “title Fedora” with your kernel version following. In the same entry after “rhgb quiet” insert the following:
vga=792 so it would look something like this:
title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_fedora-lv_root rhgb quiet vga=792
initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE.img
That’s it! Save grub.conf and reboot your machine. When you do, instead of seeing the dull progress bar, you’ll see what looks like a conversation icon in the center of the screen that fills with color. That’s Plymouth!
