USplash Removal Part Deux

[Constantine Evans]

I haven't had usplash on my computer for quite a while. The easiest 
method is to just remove the splash boot option, as others have 
mentioned. Unfortunately, a book on GRUB would not tell you this, 
because it is an Ubuntu-specific option that runs a script in your 
initramfs. If you look in your initramfs, you can examine what these 
scripts do. At the time I removed usplash from Dapper, doing so caused 
framebuffer based consoles to break. However, I believe this has been 
fixed.

Another thing to note, if you are using Edgy, is that in its current 
state, upstart doesn't give any console output, so you don't get any 
more information than you would using usplash. However, usplash is neat 
enough that I think this is worth it, and a event logger event would 
would probably be very easy to make.

Constantine

Scott wrote:
> earlier this year (I suppose this was in Dapper) I tried to remove
> Usplash altogether.
> 
> Apparently the package doesn't do all the necessary configuration one
> needs after Usplash is removed (or there was a bug).
> 
> I recall that I could not boot into Ubuntu after that.  I don't remember
> the specifics anymore but I think it was some sort of GRUB or Kernel error.
> 
> I ended up re-installing Ubuntu from scratch.
> 
> So then...
> 
> This is the long way of asking.: Besides uninstalling the usplash
> package, is there anything else one needs to do before they restart
> their computer?
> 
> And one more question.:  Is there any particular reason so much of
> Usplash is undocumented (and how might that change)?
> 
> Curiously,
>