Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

[John Richard Smith]

Greg Meyer wrote:

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

Greg Meyer wrote:
   

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
     

[EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
       

This line should be:

mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img 2.4.21-0.13mdk
     

Can I first understand what we are doing here,

I'm supposing that if I remove the bootsplash packages,
I need to run the above in order to remake
the /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img file so that
it knows how to boot without the gui stuff , is that it ?
   

That is what I am saying.  The gui image is actually stored in the initrd 
image in 9.2, so recreating it after removing the bootsplash package (or 
setting splash=NO), should eliminate it

Yes Greg,
Your approach has been correct all along, thank you for staying with me.
In truth, I got confused, first the rather confusing package name, 
bootsplash.
I thought this was to do with the initial splash screen one gets on 
first appearance.
it might of been better named something like bootscript, or 
guibootscript, or something.

Then as we sorted that confusion out , the need to remake the 
initrd.image file after the removal of boot splash became more obvious. 
Do you think if I did this it would automatically remove the references 
to splash=quiet  splash=verbose, and in
/etc/sysconfig/bootsplash the  set SPLASH=no  .or maybe it doesn't 
matter anyway ?

Thanks.

John

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