I'm using RH 7.3 and when I boot Linux I cannot see the screen that says "mounting this and satrting up that". I do get to a login screen and everything works fine, but I can't see the screens at startup. Any ideas?

do you boot up straight to the graphical environment?
if so i think you wont see all that during boot up

if not ...something is seriously wrong

I do boot into X, but the thing is I used to see those screens, and I can see those screens during shutdown/reboot. and reinstalling doesn't help., I even put in a new hard drive and that didn't do anything.

did you see those things before when you were booting straight into X, then it suddenly stopped showing up?

yeah... actually it started happening after my power supply blew up. I came home from school one day and found that my computer wouldn't turn on. I bought a new power supply and found that those "ok" screens were no longer visible.

ummm...wow
have to think on that one

well, it is something that I can live with, provided I never have to boot into runlevel 3 or something like that.

just for what its worth...
change the run level to 3 and see if you all the stuff shows up

well, I'm sort of wary about doing that... the last time I tried, I couldn't see anything, and the only way I could get back to the GUI was to reinstall Linux. If theres a way around that, then I'll try it.

you should be able to see something....least when it gets done booting
you would see a login prompt that way you can log in....

you can change the run level in the /etc/inittab file
change the 3 back to a 5 and then you would
be able to boot back to graphical

I tried that, and I saw nothing... no login screen, nothing. I logged in blindly (whew) and ran startx and here I am.

have you tried re-installing....i know...i hate mentioning it...to see what happens?

I tried reinstalling it after it first happened, and that didn't work. I got a new hard drive for Chrsitmas and installed it on that hard drive only to find out that it wasn't the hard drive. Now I'm just wondering if it isn't a BIOS thing

Well, if you're just testing a different runlevel, then there really isn't a need to edit your /etc/inittab.

Anyways, have you checked the output of dmesg (/var/log/dmesg) to see if all the boot information was logged? As well, try switching to console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), loggin in as root, and typing 'init 1', after it switches to runlevel 1, try switching to runlevel 3 with "init 3" and see if you see output on the screen. Redhat may have some screwy option somewhere to turn off the output on booting, I really don't know.