Black screen before login on boot

[Derek Broughton]

Chris wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:39 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Chris wrote:
>> > Is the "Quite splash" suppose to show nothing.  If now what is the
>> > "quite splash" for?
>> 
> 
> Do you have any idea what would cause this to happen during boot....I
> can understand when the GUI kicks in ...but not during boot?

My suspicion (not well grounded in actual knowledge :-) ) is that what
you're seeing _is_ the splash screen (because I agree with you that it
seems odd that everything displays _once_ the GUI kicks in - exactly when
the splash screen should disappear), so removing the splash option from the
grub line might well work.

Remember, you don't need to actually change /boot/grub/menu.lst to change
boot options.  At boot time, press "E" on the boot menu line you want to
change, move to the actual kernel options line, press E again, go to end of
line and remove "splash", press enter and "B".  If that works, either
modify /boot/grub/menu.lst permanently or try another splash image.
-- 
derek