Disabling all the start-up graphics
John L Fjellstad
john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Sat Sep 22 18:33:17 UTC 2007
Peter N Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Folks,
>
> I'm kinda of partial to watching the start-up process as I activate
> Xubuntu Fiesty. And I don't mind logging in the old-fashioned way and
> using startx. I've disabled the log-in screen, which gives me a
> command-line login. I'm now trying to figure out how to disable the
> admittedly nice-looking progress bar that appears during the boot-up
> process so that I can track the system's progress as it gets rolling.
> What's the most effective way to do that?
In /boot/grub/menu.lst, remove the splash and quiet option in the kernel
line. To change it permanently for even new installed kernels, find the
defoptions line and remove quiet and splash there
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John L. Fjellstad
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