Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2013, 15:54 -0400 schrieb Felix Miata: > On 2013-05-16 21:27 (GMT+0200) Thomas Prost composed: > > > Martin Pitt wrote: > > >> Thomas Prost wrote: > > >> > So the question is: What must I do to carry on, seeing all what the > >> > machine is doing - instead of that nice aubergine screen ? > > >> Drop the "splash" boot option. You can do this for an individual boot > >> in the grub menu editor (press shift after power on to get to the grub > >> menu), or permantly in /etc/default/grub and then running > >> "sudo update-grub". > > > You mean that --> > > > #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noplymouth noquiet nosplash" > > > I changed the outcommented original first deleting splash - no boot > > messages :-( > > Then deleted quiet also - still no messages :-( > > > Then filled in all I could find - up to what you see above. > > Even if it might not be meaningful it doesn't produce error messages - > > but still no boot messages on my screen, that still switches to > > aubergine. Only the Ubuntu sign isn't shown anymore ... > > > Is it possible, that there are scripts pre-loading plymouth ? > > Rebuilding initrd to exclude plymouth should work, but first try > splash=verbose on cmdline. You don't need noquiet to not have quiet. Just > remove quiet to get the default of not quiet. Playmouth=0 ought to work as > well, as should splash=0, which splash=verbose at least used to be an alias > of, which in turn at least used to be an alias of the default of no splash of > any kind. It now looks as --> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="plymouth=0 splash=verbose" but this also has not had the effect, that I wished.
Maybe the aubergine at boot stays black (it's an old laptop I test it on, where this difference is hardly seen), but what I hoped for is not a twenty seconds empty screen but displaying messages right from leaving the BIOS screen :-( -- Best, Thomas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss