Disabling Splash Screen Ubuntu

Posted by evo on Friday, August 29, 2008
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During startup, any administration knows that this is where you need to be aware of the things going on with your system. But out of the box, Ubuntu comes ready to suppress the errors and display a nice splash screen.

To get around this and get your information back you want to run:
sudo joe /boot/grub/menu.lst
and locate the below:
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=ed59a33a-69bf-4a01-af11-be65b87b4286 ro quiet splash xforcevesa
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet
You just want to remove quiet splash so it reads:
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=ed59a33a-69bf-4a01-af11-be65b87b4286 ro xforcevesa
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
quiet
Obviously you'll want to do this for the appropriate kernel title that you are using, as of the date of this posting it was 2.6.24-19.

3 comments:

Erik said...
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August 30, 2008 11:39 AM
Erik said...

There's no need to do this if you just want to suppress the splash screen for a single boot. Hitting Alt+F1 while the splash screen is up will bypass it.

August 30, 2008 11:40 AM
evo said...

Good point! That's a good tip if you want to surpress it for one boot, but for me, I'd rather see the dialogs instead of the pretty pictures!

August 31, 2008 5:14 PM

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