On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Once upon a time when I booted my linux box I watched a load of text > flow past, got a login, logged in, ran startx and it all worked, > quickly! > > Now when I boot my linux box (well, any one of several actually) I see > *nothing* between the BIOS screen and the pretty (?) lubuntu/xubuntu > screen asking me to log in. Increasingly I'm seeing *long* delays on > the way as Network Manager and Plymouth between them waste my time > waiting for networks to configure themselves (or not). On my laptop in > particular it's getting steadily worse as I alternate regularly between > wired and WiFi network connections and the system really doesn't cope > with this well. > > I have tried to tell grub to tell me what's happenning as it goes but it > appears incapable of working on any of my systems, I just get a blank > screen during boot whatever I do. > > Can I remove all of the plymouth junk and as a result get a text only > login sequence or is there more to it than that? I have already removed > Network Manager and replaced it with wicd which has made some things > work better.
You do not need to remove anything. Just edit /etc/default/grub and replace: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" with: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" Save the changes, and then run update-grub as root. -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
