Not displaying logo during startup/shutdown

[Glenn Holmer]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 07:16:48 Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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".

And how about if I want to have more lines on the consoles?  When I use 
e.g. vga=0x317, it looks terrible, and alt-F2 &c. don't work.

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