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If run in (pseudo?)text mode as observed under a hupervisor KVM either VMWare, CentOS 8 displays three animated square dots at boot screen:

three-square-dots-centos8

How to disable this screen to see normal text output also during boot?

J. Doe
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Edit your grub configuration and remove the "quiet" option from the kernel line.

An easy way to do this is to remove "quiet" from "/boot/grub2/grubenv" but make sure to back up this file first just in case there is a typo which can cause the VM to not boot.

elmerjfudd
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  • thank you @JSEvans, per further research I've found that while I can't instruct kickstart for that per design, I could apply the fix through post-install script. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/101303/centos-6-4-kickstart-bootloader-problem – J. Doe Nov 28 '19 at 14:34
  • Any way to show custom progress info instead of disabling this screen? – BTR Naidu May 08 '22 at 19:56