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Contributor conradoat

installation without splash  
Written by conradoat the 12 Nov 09 at 19:48. Related project: Live CD installer. New
I think that splash is just to make linux, ubuntu in particular, more attractive to beginners. But it does not allow the user to read the kernel messages during boot up.

The first thing I do after installing linux/ubuntu is to get rid of it.

I would love to be asked if I want this piece of software to be installed in my computer during the setting up of the OS.
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Solution #1: just ask the user!
Written by conradoat the 12 Nov 09 at 19:48.
Just add a question and a tick-box in step seven of the installation process, below the popularity contest, asking whether we want it or not.

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Solution #2: Add a button or key-stroke to usplash
Written by Darwin Survivor the 15 Nov 09 at 21:59.
Fedora has (or had last I used it) a button you could hit that would show/hide the kernel messages.

A simpley button, or even keystroke, that switched between usplash and text mode would probably be enough.
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Solution #3: Show relevant messages only.
Written by sosurrey the 30 Nov 09 at 10:11.
Just show error messages, or messages that are different from the last boot in an informative and non alarming way.

That's really all you need to know unless you are messing with stuff, but then if you need that you've probably already disabled the splash anyway.
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Solution #4: Just remove grub options...
Written by hmb1 the 2 Dec 09 at 20:26.
...since you're not a beginner?
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Solution #5: Be too fast to matter
Written by snadrus the 3 Dec 09 at 21:20.
If pre-X is 2-3s then just a black screen will do as most BIOSes take more than that.

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