Comments on: Quickzi: Get rid of the Ubuntu splash screen during boot

By: rcadby

rcadby — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:44:20 +0000

Just had (a week’s worth) of problems booting a new install of 10.4. Found the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg with the “quiet splash” option (in several places), removed them all and it now boots properly. Thanks for the ‘lead’ for the fix.

By: gfy

gfy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:04:43 +0000

thanks. worked

By: Apollo

Apollo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:36:24 +0000

Great Post, now ubuntu loads how al linux is supposed to
thankyou!

By: Simon Powell

Simon Powell — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:43:34 +0000

Beautiful – had been trying to track down why Squid was taking so long to start and needed to get back to the old skool and monitor startup scripts. This sorted it perfectly for me. Thanks chief.

By: Willem

Willem — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:24:27 +0000

Ah thanks, much better now (call me crazy, but I like to see what I’m waiting for instead of staring at some logo)

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:40:11 +0000

Adam,

Thanks for the info – that puts me on the right track…I’ve looked at stage2 and can see the text I want to get rid of. Too bad this is a binary file. It would be nice to have a text file for easy configuration.

Fred

By: Adam Kane

Adam Kane — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:21:09 +0000

Hi Fred,

The instructions you are referring to are contained in the binary file /boot/grub/stage2. You could try grabbing the source of Grub and rebuilding by removing those lines, or perhaps removing them directly from the binary file may work. I haven’t tested this, so use caution.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:30:32 +0000

I am using a custom grub splash screen and would like to remove the grub instructions, “use arrow keys to select…etc” that appears near the bottom of the boot menu. Where does this message come from (don’t see it in menu.lst) and how do I get rid of it but not the grub boot list?

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:14:29 +0000

Totally Helps. Actually led me to dig deeper into how to run commands. I changed myself to an administrator by logging in as root. The rest is history. Boot time is now about a minute, and I’ll see if I can improve on it. Thanks for the help Adam. I’m loving Linux. Smooth and Sweet

By: Adam Kane

Adam Kane — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:06:09 +0000

Brian,

The command line referenced in the section under “Get rid of the Ubuntu Splash screen permanently” is after booting, via a text editor.

The stuff prior is from hitting “Esc” during boot up.

Hope that helps.