Ubuntu 7.10 on a Laptop slow startup

[Nils Kassube]

W.D.McKinney wrote:
>   I would love to try that.  How do I turn off the splash screen?

First try if it really works for you: In the grub menu at boot time, press 
the "e" key. Then you have a menu where you find a line starting 
with "kernel". Select that line and press "e" again. Now your cursor is 
at the end of the line. Delete the words "quiet splash" at the end of the 
line and add "vga=normal" (without quotes). Then press enter and "b". Now 
the system should boot with lots of messages displayed.

If that works for you, you can make the change permanent. In a terminal 
enter the command

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

to modify the configuration file for grub. Be careful because you are 
editing the file as root. Replace the words "quiet splash" everywhere 
with "vga=normal" and save the file.


Nils