Turn off boot splash

[Phil Savoie]

Morning All,

Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
etc. how does one do this in m2010?

Thank you,

Phil

[Barry Jackson]

On 20/11/09 15:42, Phil Savoie wrote:
> Morning All,
>
> Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
> etc. how does one do this in m2010?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Phil
>
Hi Phil,
As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.

Barry.

[Phil Savoie]

Barry Jackson wrote:

> On 20/11/09 15:42, Phil Savoie wrote:
>> Morning All,
>>
>> Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
>> etc. how does one do this in m2010?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Phil
>>
> Hi Phil,
> As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
> read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
> Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.
>
> Barry.

Thank you, sir!

Phil

On 2009/11/20 16:14 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:

> On 20/11/09 15:42, Phil Savoie wrote:

>> Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
>> etc. how does one do this in m2010?

> As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
> read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
> Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.

IIRC, verbose is the default if splash= is absent from cmdline. Just to be
sure, I include splash=0 or splash=off. Once upon a time IIRC I read a kernel
doc somewhere that said either splash=verbose is not valid or simply made no
mention of its existence. Sometimes I prevent it with rpm -e --nodeps on all
*splash* packages, which saves some disk space and update downloading
time/bandwidth. In these case I also put the *splash* packages in skip.list.
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[Barry Jackson]

Felix Miata wrote:

> On 2009/11/20 16:14 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:
>
>> On 20/11/09 15:42, Phil Savoie wrote:
>
>>> Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
>>> etc. how does one do this in m2010?
>
>> As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
>> read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
>> Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.
>
> IIRC, verbose is the default if splash= is absent from cmdline. Just to be
> sure, I include splash=0 or splash=off. Once upon a time IIRC I read a kernel
> doc somewhere that said either splash=verbose is not valid or simply made no
> mention of its existence. Sometimes I prevent it with rpm -e --nodeps on all
> *splash* packages, which saves some disk space and update downloading
> time/bandwidth. In these case I also put the *splash* packages in skip.list.

Yes, it seems that simply omiting the splash= does the job, however
splash=verbose does work and could serve as a reminder of where to put
the statement back after a change of mind. ;-)
I quite like the 2010 splash screen, so I won't be adding *splash* to
skip.lst, but it's a neat idea - thanks.
Barry

[Phil Savoie]

Felix Miata wrote:

> On 2009/11/20 16:14 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:
>
>> On 20/11/09 15:42, Phil Savoie wrote:
>
>>> Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
>>> etc. how does one do this in m2010?
>
>> As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
>> read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
>> Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.
>
> IIRC, verbose is the default if splash= is absent from cmdline. Just to be
> sure, I include splash=0 or splash=off. Once upon a time IIRC I read a kernel
> doc somewhere that said either splash=verbose is not valid or simply made no
> mention of its existence. Sometimes I prevent it with rpm -e --nodeps on all
> *splash* packages, which saves some disk space and update downloading
> time/bandwidth. In these case I also put the *splash* packages in skip.list.

Thank you,  what I did was to remove the splash entry entirely and now I
have what I want.

Phil

[dlwiggers]

Barry Jackson wrote:

> Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2009/11/20 16:14 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:
>>
>>> On 20/11/09 15:42, Phil Savoie wrote:
>>
>>>> Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
>>>> etc. how does one do this in m2010?
>>
>>> As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
>>> read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
>>> Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.
>>
>> IIRC, verbose is the default if splash= is absent from cmdline. Just
>> to be
>> sure, I include splash=0 or splash=off. Once upon a time IIRC I read a
>> kernel
>> doc somewhere that said either splash=verbose is not valid or simply
>> made no
>> mention of its existence. Sometimes I prevent it with rpm -e --nodeps
>> on all
>> *splash* packages, which saves some disk space and update downloading
>> time/bandwidth. In these case I also put the *splash* packages in
>> skip.list.
>
> Yes, it seems that simply omiting the splash= does the job, however
> splash=verbose does work and could serve as a reminder of where to put
> the statement back after a change of mind. ;-)
> I quite like the 2010 splash screen, so I won't be adding *splash* to
> skip.lst, but it's a neat idea - thanks.
> Barry
>

Lurking here..........Thanks for an answer before I asked.

Lee

[Charles A Edwards]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:53 +0000
Barry Jackson wrote:

> > Would like to turn off the boot splash and go back to the green ok's
> > etc. how does one do this in m2010?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Phil
> >  
> Hi Phil,
> As root, edit the first entry (under Linux) in /boot/grub/menu.lst to
> read "splash=verbose" instead of "splash=silent".
> Strange that the GUI option for changing this now seems to be missing.

You should also edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash and set
SPLASH=no
or it will still look for it during boot.

BTW if you are like me and also hate speedboot it can also be set to
'no'
in /etc/sysconfig/speedboot


    Charles

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[Phil Savoie]

Charles A Edwards wrote:

> You should also edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash and set
> SPLASH=no
> or it will still look for it during boot.
>
> BTW if you are like me and also hate speedboot it can also be set to
> 'no'
> in /etc/sysconfig/speedboot
>
>
>     Charles
>

Charles,
Thank you for the added info, this is great stuff I haven't heard of
before.  The speedboot, is this where the gui starts before a login is
displayed on the ttys?  If so, I was wondering why this was happening.

Phil

[Charles A Edwards]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:45 -0500
Phil Savoie wrote:

> Thank you for the added info, this is great stuff I haven't heard of
> before.  The speedboot, is this where the gui starts before a login is
> displayed on the ttys?  

Yes as well as before network and several other services have been
started.



   Charles


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