Disabling graphical boot and starting applications early
Felix Miata
mrmazda at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 10 00:26:33 UTC 2012
On 2012-12-09 18:54 (GMT-0500) Tom H composed:
> Daniel Dalton wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:24:11AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>>> My 10.04 boots up to normal GUI, but with text boot messages, with
>>> the following cmdline:
>>> ro root=<device> splash=verbose noplymouth
>> So do I replace
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
>> with:
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ro root=/dev/sda splash=verbose noplymouth"
Exactly? root=/dev/sda will almost never be an appropriate cmdline argument,
and probably has no business in any GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT either.
> No
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=verbose noplymouth"
> although I'd like to see where these values are documented. An initrd
> built with initramfs-tools doesn't parse for them and "init --help"
> doesn't list them.
Note I mentioned the version I use. I haven't seen Tom H or Daniel D mention
in this thread what they're using. Grub2 is a moving target. Docs can't be
expected to remain the same for the 5 releases from 10.10 to now.
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