[ubuntu-za] Bootscreen weirdness

[Jason Norwood-Young]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:25 +0200, Jean Gruneberg wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Quick question.....
> 
> Running colony 4 with all updates on a laptop.  Have the 
> pretty bootscreen as the system powers up.  However if I am 
> not on a network connected to the internet - when it gets to 
> the time sync. to ntp.ubuntu.com it obviously fails / times 
> out and then it reverts back to the old white on black 
> bootscreen for the rest of the boot.
> 
> So 2 questions - is this normal? Or just a bit of flakyness?
Normal
> 
> and
> 
> where do I disable the time checking at boot, really don't 
> need my laptop at atomic clock precision ;-)
sudo rm /etc/init.d/ntupdate
(in theory - never tried it myself)

J