Why did you choose red for the CentOS banner on boot

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stine
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Why did you choose red for the CentOS banner on boot

Post by stine » 2015/04/03 14:09:41

Please, don't do this. If there's one thing that I've learned over the last 27 years in IT, it's to only use red, or any color that could be mistaken for red, for error messages.
The use of bright red for the CentOS 7 banner during the boot process caused me to re-install the O.S. several times before I realized it was just the CentOS 7 version.

Is there any simple way to change it from red to any other color?

Don't feel too bad, Imperva thought that a 80x23 ascii banner, in the same bright red, was an intelligent thing to add to their distro's boot sequence. Let me tell you I was not too happy, at 4am, with that, at all, installing from a USB...

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Re: Why did you choose red for the CentOS banner on boot

Post by avij » 2015/04/03 15:34:04

I presume it's red because of what is in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and nobody at CentOS bothered changing the text to some other colour.

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Re: Why did you choose red for the CentOS banner on boot

Post by gulikoza » 2015/04/03 15:35:48

Same here too...I had to reboot twice and scroll-back just to be sure it wasn't a service failure right after install...

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Re: Why did you choose red for the CentOS banner on boot

Post by TrevorH » 2015/04/03 16:43:01

In CentOS 6 it's blue. Looks like this was overlooked or was done deliberately for 7.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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