Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-07 Thread Matthew Saunders
Thats cool Alan! It's amazing all the tips and tricks that can be learnt. > It was interesting to see that everyone has their favourite editor; I > used gedit. I could, of course, have used kate! I do most of my editing in pico, and sometimes in gedit. I amaze the Windows guys at work because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-07 Thread Bernard G Hill
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 22:00 +0100, Matthew Saunders wrote: > > I have looked at MENU.LST and it contains this line which I think you > > are referring to: > > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet=vga=791 > > Is the = after the word quiet actually in the menu.lst? > (qui

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 04:50:55AM +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > Matthew Saunders wrote: > > My working menu.lst shows: > > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash > > > > I don't know if it will help your problem, but you don't have the word > > splash on that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-06 Thread Sean Miller
Matthew Saunders wrote: > My working menu.lst shows: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash > > I don't know if it will help your problem, but you don't have the word > splash on that line? I'm only guessing but this might get the start > up screen working.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Saunders
> I have looked at MENU.LST and it contains this line which I think you > are referring to: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-386 root=/dev/hdb5 ro quiet=vga=791 Is the = after the word quiet actually in the menu.lst? (quiet=vga=791) This should be a space instead. My working menu.lst shows:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-06 Thread Bernard G Hill
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 21:08 +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote: > Bernard G Hill wrote: > > How can I recover the startup screen. > > > I think possibly the VGA stuf needs to be set up .. I had a similar > issue on my Fuji .. > > I edited the boot menu to add VGA=791 to the end of the kernel boot >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-05 Thread Nicholas Butler
Bernard G Hill wrote: > How can I recover the startup screen. > I think possibly the VGA stuf needs to be set up .. I had a similar issue on my Fuji .. I edited the boot menu to add VGA=791 to the end of the kernel boot section under Grub . Are you okay with adding this or can someone else j

[ubuntu-uk] Bootup screen

2006-10-05 Thread Bernard G Hill
Following one of the recent updates, the splash screen and boot up information between the the Grub display and the desktop, has disappeared. The system boots up OK but the screen stays blank until the desktop shows up. How can I recover the startup screen. Kubuntu 6.06. I hope someone can offer