**SPLASH remove There are two solutions. - The first one will remove the spash screen.

- The second one will make the splash screen a bit more informational. - So here's solution one: For this open a terminal my right-click on the desktop and choosing 'Terminal' Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst by starting an editor as superuser root: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Remove 'quiet' and 'splash' in the follwing part of menu.lst: Note: depending on your setup there might be more options not only quiet and splash. Don't delete this other options, only delete quiet and splash. ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash to: ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions= So by removing the defoption 'quiet splash' entry the splashscreen wil not be used anymore After you've done the changes you have to initialize the new grub bootloader entry. Again in a terminal start: sudo update-grub You will see that grup rewrites it's boot entry. So we're done. You may now close the Terminal and reboot the system to see the changes - And solution two: Only change # defoptions=quiet splash to # defoptions=splash So you still have a splash screen but it will give information about the startup proecess. After you've done the changes you have to initialize the new grub bootloader entry. Again in a terminal start: sudo update-grub You will see that grup rewrites it's boot entry. So we're done. You may now close the Terminal and reboot the system to see the changes Note: Aside this two solutions there are others to see what's going on during bootup. They only are effective during this particular boot run. For the next

system start they are not affective annnymore. So this is a good way for some kind of 'debuging' or 'repair on the fly' for a system startup. - Even when the system is up and running you may see most of the startup messages by typing: sudo dmesg or: sudo dmesg | less - You may switch to VT1 or VT6 when you see the splash screen by pressing <Ctrl>+<F1> or <Ctrl>+<F6> So you will see a lot of startup messages 'just in time' - you may edit the grub menu when you see it at the first beggining of a system startup process. Pressing 'e' will bring you into the edit mode of grub. select the line you want to edit with the <Up> and <Dn>Keys (The up and down arrow keys) press 'e' once more to edit the selected line. you may delete the options 'quiet' and / or 'splash' with the delete keys press <Esc> to leave the edit mode and press <b> to boot This also only effects one system startup and ist often used as a fallback if a system will not start or for testing purposes. The man-pages of grub and the grub-Howto will give a *lot* of information about this. regards, thomas