No grub menu or splash in 11.04 - how to get it back?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 05:35:25PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 05:28 PM, NoOp wrote:
> ....
> 
> Disregard all that I had posted above this; that was my documentation on
> how to get the splash screen with my nvidia card. Please just try the
> following:
> 
I'd already looked throug the bug report and decided that it wasn't
*exactly* my problem, though related.


> > 
> > $ gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
> > 
What's all this GUI edit stuff!  :-)

    sudo vi /etc/default/grub

(Though in my case I prefer vile to vim)


> > change:
> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
> > to
> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nosplash"
> > 
> > change:
> > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> > to
> > GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> > 
> > save the file. Then:
> > 
> > $ sudo update-grub
> > 

In fact simply uncommenting the GRUB_TERMINAL line has brought
everything to life.  I'm perfectly happy not having pretty graphics at
boot time (the system stays on all the time anyway, reboots are only for
testing and major changes).  

Is it possible to tell the 'console' to work at a higher resolution so
that the messages don't wrap so much?

> > Note: make sure you have an earlier version of the kernal installed;
> > that way if the /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-top/load-vesafb give
> > you issues, you can boot into the older kernel & remove the load-vesafb
> > file.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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Chris Green