Not displaying logo during startup/shutdown

[Nils Kassube]

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Is there any way to make Ubuntu not display the Ubuntu logo with the
> bar during startup/shutdown, but the service messages instead?

Use the command

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

in a terminal (or with ALT-F2) to modify the grub boot menu. In this file 
replace every string "quiet splash" with the string "vga=normal".


Nils