HI, AS WE ARE BOOTING THE SYSTEM WITH FEDORA LINUX-2.6.9 AFTER SELECTING AT GRUB MENU ,FIRST THE TEXT MESSAGES LIKE title fedora (2.6.9-fedora) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-fedora ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-fedora.img Uncompressing the kernel Nash version-...etc welcome to fedora Starting udev Initialising hardware storage network audio THEN GRAPHICAL BOOT(X SERVER) STARTS , ALL TEXT MESSAGES ARE HIDDEN AND ONLY A IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR IS SHOWN. BUT I WANT TO BUILD MY KERNEL AS WHEN SELECTING AT GRUB MENU IT SHOULD NOT SHOW ANY KIND OF TEXT MESSAGES,BUT ONLY GRAPHICAL IMAGE WITH PROGRESS BAR LIKE WINDOWS OS . AND THE SAME IDEA I WANT TO IMPEMENT WHILE SHUTDOWN. I HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD ME . PLEASE LET ME KNOW -- Warm Regards, Gangaraju.Chowki Software Engineer, Host Technologies Ltd, Banjara Hills,Road No:12, Hyderabad.