Ubuntu boot screen

[Technomage-hawke]

On Monday 21 April 2008, Trent Shipley wrote:
> Dell loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on my new system.  One problem that it's had since
> I got it is that it seems to hang on boot.  I can't really tell if it is
> hanging.  The thing only displays a progress bar in its normal boot
> sequence. The progress bar fails to progress. I get impatient and hit
> ctrl-alt-del.
>
> When it comes time to load the operating system the second time I opt to do
> a recovery boot.  The system boots to runlevel 2, prints the bootlog to
> standard output.  I watch the text scroll by.  It stops for root to log on.
> I log on and exit.  It launches X and waits for me to log in.
>
> How can I get the normal boot sequence to display the boot log to STDOUT
> instead of the fancy-yet-useless progress bar?
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modify grub and where it says splash, change that to nosplash (or remove it)
then execute grub-install /dev/hdx to install the new bootloader