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Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the Ubuntu splash screen during the boot process? You know, the screen that has the orange progress bar and the Ubuntu logo. You may want to see if anything is failing during the boot process, or you may just want to see exactly what takes place behind the scenes. If you’re curious, theres a quick and easy way to get rid of it.

Get rid of the Ubuntu Splash screen temporarily:

1. Reboot your computer
2. Hit “Esc” when prompted in order to enter the GRUB menu.
3. Select the proper kernel and hit the letter “e” to edit.
   
4. Arrow down to the Kernel line, and hit the letter “e” again.
   
5. You should see the last few words in the line. Remove the words “quiet splash” and hit enter.
   
6. Hit the letter “b” to boot the kernel without the Ubuntu splash screen. Below is what it will look like.
   

Get rid of the Ubuntu Splash screen permanently:

1. From the command line, edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Near the bottom of the file, you will find some lines similar to this:
   

   title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=xxxx ro quiet splash
   initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
   quiet

2. Change the above to look like this:
   

   title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=xxxx ro
   initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

3. Save the file and exit.

Cheers!

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