Getting rid of the startup splash screen (Edgy)

[Roberto Waltman]

sdavmor wrote:
> On one of the many boxes here in my home office I have a desktop
> Ubuntu installed as OEM from the alternate installs CD. It comes
> up in text display mode until it's done, then startsx. I want all
> my machines (laptop included) to come up in that manner. I guess
> I'll go look at it's /boot/grub/menu.lst to see if anything leaps
> out at me.

You can just edit menu.lst and remove the "splash" and "quiet" options.

Better yet, after the system comes up in graphic mode, switch to a text 
console ("CTRL+ALT+F2", for example), login and remove usplash and gdm:

sudo apt-get remove --purge usplash gdm

Presto! - Text only system until you type startx.

Roberto Waltman