Ubuntu boot screen

[Trent Shipley]

On Monday 2008-04-21, Technomage-hawke wrote:
> 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

I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst as recommended and rebooted.  Everything worked 
fine.  It was not necessary to run grub-install.