Turning off "quiet splash"

[Darryl Clarke]

On 5/19/06, Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh.com> wrote:
> 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
> 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"?

usplash is the cuplret.

disable the startup script; /etc/init.d/usplash

(or remove the package usplash -- but this will remove the desktop
metapackage as well.)

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