Why don't I see startup messages at the console during a boot?

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Issue

  • After the GRUB screen appears ("Booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux") a progress bar is shown until the login prompt appears, but none of the expected service started messages.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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