[xubuntu-users] Blank screen period during boot.

[Peter Flynn]

On 03/25/2015 01:03 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
[...]
> First, you could turn off splash and quiet in grub. Then, during the
> actual bootup, as opposed to going into X and the desktop, they would
> see lines of text cascade up the screen.
> 
> When udev gets run, there will be a brief blackout, then you see lines
> of text start to appear again, and usually the text is a different font
> than the original boot font.
> 
> Finally, depending on desktop environment, there may be a blackout
> period when you go into X. Because some distros choose to get
> networking up and going during X instantiation instead of during actual
> boot, the computer can appear to be hung for a fair amount of time,
> especially if booted away from your usual SSID. I'm pretty sure that to
> ease the user's mind during that time, what you could do is have
> whatever shellscript does boot level 5 GUI immediately throw up a
> graphic that says "Your computer is configuring itself, stand by...". I
> believe that will serve as a wallpaper, and perhaps in a later part of
> the boot you can overwright that wallpaper.

Thanks very much, very useful information.

> If the user has sole physical possession of the console, you can always
> boot to boot level 3 and then run startx. Ubuntu will fight you tooth
> and nail if you try to do that, but there are plenty of ways to get it
> done. I've done it.

Done that before, long ago. Worth bearing in mind.

///Peter