How to see what Qubes is doing during boot?

floasretch

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Oct 11, 2018, 2:45:21 PM10/11/18

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Booting Qubes 4.0 on a five-year-old Core i3 laptop, it always sits for several minutes with a grey screen, white Q logo, and slowly advancing progress bar. Is there some textual boot report I can watch instead, to see why it takes so long?

Ivan Mitev

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Oct 11, 2018, 3:00:58 PM10/11/18

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On 10/11/18 9:45 PM, 'floasretch' via qubes-users wrote:
> Booting Qubes 4.0 on a five-year-old Core i3 laptop, it always sits for several minutes with a grey screen, white Q logo, and slowly advancing progress bar. Is there some textual boot report I can watch instead, to see why it takes so long?

hiting the `esc` key when you see the grey screen should switch to text.
Alternatively you can boot without the 'quiet' option (edit the kernel
options when you're presented with the grub menu at boot).

A long startup time is usually the consequence of (auto)starting many VMs.

unman

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Oct 15, 2018, 10:32:22 AM10/15/18

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Hitting the L-R arrows toggles between graphical and text boot.

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