Ubuntu 7.10 on a Laptop slow startup

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:53:11 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:

> 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.

Why would you add "vga=normal" to the line? I simply removed "splash".
Removing "quiet" doesn't make much sense; the text will scroll too fast to
read with that amount of information being printed.

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