Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[NoOp]

On 10/09/2007 02:31 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:05 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>> As Henry Ford said about the Model T, "You can have any color as long
>> as it's black."
> 
> Except that in Ubuntu, and Linux in general, you can have it camouflaged
> and chequered. But this should not be the default, and there shouldn't
> be options everywhere, either. People who want it can change it.
> 
> 

Actually, if you set your framebuffer vga= to a small enough size you
can get both the splash and the text :-)  Splash on top half of the
screen, text on the lower. Can't remember exactly how I did it
previously, but that's how mine was set up before I upgraded to Gutsy.
Best of both worlds :-)