Re: Ubuntu 7.10 on a Laptop slow startup

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:53:11 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:

W.D.McKinney wrote:
I would love to try that. How do I turn off the splash screen?

First try if it really works for you: In the grub menu at boot time, press
the "e" key. Then you have a menu where you find a line starting with
"kernel". Select that line and press "e" again. Now your cursor is at the
end of the line. Delete the words "quiet splash" at the end of the line
and add "vga=normal" (without quotes). Then press enter and "b". Now the
system should boot with lots of messages displayed.

If that works for you, you can make the change permanent. In a terminal
enter the command

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

to modify the configuration file for grub. Be careful because you are
editing the file as root. Replace the words "quiet splash" everywhere with
"vga=normal" and save the file.

Why would you add "vga=normal" to the line? I simply removed "splash".
Removing "quiet" doesn't make much sense; the text will scroll too fast to
read with that amount of information being printed.

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Regards, Robert http://www.arumes.com



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