Turning off "quiet splash"

Thilo Six T.Six at gmx.de
Sat May 20 10:44:55 UTC 2006


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Norman Walsh wrote the following on 19.05.2006 15:48:
> Running Dapper...
> 
> I can't stand the graphical "splash screen" booting options. For one
> thing, I have encrypted partitions so there's always this annoying
> pause half way through the boot when it waits a few seconds before
> switching to the text screen so I can see the prompts.
> 
> So I edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and delete the quiet splash keywords

Removing "splash" suffice.
I use it this way myself, too.


> From defoptions:
> 
> ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
> ## alternatives
> ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
> # defoptions=
> 
> And all is well...until the next kernel update is apt-get installed.
> Everytime a new kernel is installed, some script puts those options
> back. What do I have to change so that those options are never
> "restored"?

Does not happen here.

> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm



bye Thilo
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine

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