How can I get a simple, straightforward, non-GUI login sequence with no waits?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:42:15PM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> > Can I remove all of the plymouth junk and as a result get a text only
>> > login sequence or is there more to it than that?  I have already removed
>> > Network Manager and replaced it with wicd which has made some things
>> > work better.
>>
>> You do not need to remove anything.
>>
>> Just edit /etc/default/grub and replace:
>>
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
>>
>> with: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
>>
>>
>> Save the changes, and then run update-grub as root.
>>
> ... and this does improve things slightly but it's still far from the
> way it used to be.
>
> When I boot I see the BIOS screen as expected then the grub menu.
>
> I then get a blank screen for 20 seconds or so followed by a momentary
> display of all the stuff that should have been scrolling by during those
> 20 seconds and then the GUI login screen.
>
> It's no use at all for seeing where any delays are, or even being able
> to read any messages during the boot process.
>
> This is as seen on my laptop but it's just about the same on other
> systems booting various versions of Ubuntu, there is no easy way to
> actually watch the boot process any more.

What I see in my computer, are many messages during GRUB loading, and
few messages during boot.

Things have changed now, Linux loads fast. You can also see the boot
messages at /var/log/boot.log.

I am not sure, if there is some configuration somewhere, to see more
detailed messages during boot, or not.


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