How to get a simpler (text only?) startup sequence?

[Ric Moore]

On 12/09/2012 11:17 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:30:08PM +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
>> On 12/09/2012 03:03 PM, Chris Green wrote:
>>> Once upon a time when I booted my linux box I watched a load of text
>>> flow past, got a login, logged in, ran startx and it all worked,
>>> quickly!
>>>
>>> Now when I boot my linux box (well, any one of several actually) I see
>>> *nothing* between the BIOS screen and the pretty (?) lubuntu/xubuntu
>>> screen asking me to log in.  Increasingly I'm seeing *long* delays on
>>> the way as Network Manager and Plymouth between them waste my time
>>> waiting for networks to configure themselves (or not).  On my laptop in
>>> particular it's getting steadily worse as I alternate regularly between
>>> wired and WiFi network connections and the system really doesn't cope
>>> with this well.
>>>
>>> I have tried to tell grub to tell me what's happenning as it goes but it
>>> appears incapable of working on any of my systems, I just get a blank
>>> screen during boot whatever I do.
>>>
>>> Can I remove all of the plymouth junk and as a result get a text only
>>> login sequence or is there more to it than that?  I have already removed
>>> Network Manager and replaced it with wicd which has made some things
>>> work better.
>>>
>> You will have to edit - as root -  the following line in /etc/default/grub
>> and remove the quiet and splash between the quotation marks, so it reads
>>
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
>>
>> save the file, and then from the command line:
>>
>> sudo update-grub
>>
>> reboot and enjoy lots of text scroll by.
>>
> OK, it's an improvement, at least I see *something* at boot time.
>
> There are still the long delays caused by plymouth waiting for a
> network that's not there (the hardwired interface) on my laptop.  What
> I see is 20 seconds or so of nothing, then a dozen lines or so
> of starting/stopping information, then:-
>
>      Waiting for network configuration
>      Waiting for up to 60 more seconds for network configuration
>
> These are new, never used to happen, and add a couple of minutes or more
> to the boot time.

Yup, I seeing  all kinds of weird starting and stoppings of things, with 
12.10, that shouldn't be THERE during initial bootup. Slower than a 
grazing moose.

I know, I shoulda stayed with 12.4. Someone just shoot me. Ric



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