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#4417: Splash Screen doesn't hide bootup messages such as FAIL
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Written by go_beep_yourself the 12 Mar 08 at 22:27.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Splash Screen doesn't hide bootup messages such as FAIL and PASS. Users have the option to see it like in Fedora if they click the arrow still with the Splash Screen showing. Not all Ubuntu users are newbs, and they want to be able to use Ubuntu as well.
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go_beep_yourself wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 00:00
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Our ideas are similar but a little different. Instead going to a cli text interface, I'd like to keep the nice graphical splash screen and add an option to see what's going on behind the scenes.
"So it would be nice if I could press the "Esc" key, and it would switch from graphical boot, to show the geeky text stuff on start up. "
Simply remove splash from your menu.lst default options and run "sudo update-grub" if you want text mode boot up. You might as well disable or remove gdm and use startx to login, something I used to do a while back when my 8800 gts could not display the splash screen, so I saw nothing until I got to the gdm login manager.
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XSP wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 04:53
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Sounds like what Fedora does. You have a screen with the classic progress bar sliding it's way across, with a drop down button that will reveal what's actually going on.
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Xan wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 17:00
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There is a bug related?
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Eldmannen wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 20:07
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go_beep_yourself,
But I do want to show the graphical splash screen...
But sometimes maybe I want too see whats under it...
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Dazed_75 wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 20:44
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If you want the splash screen and still want to see messages, just remove the word "quiet" rather than the word "splash" in the manner go_beep_yourself suggested. And for the most messages, remove both words.
Still the ability to request the messages when they do not normally display would be a useful change. Especially for those who are asked to help with a boot up failure on a machine which is set for quiet splash.
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sedra wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 21:31
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i'm noob i dont want this stuff -1
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stevec wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 23:15
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I was just about to post this same idea. Glad I searched first.
I like the graphic installer, but I also like being able to see what's loading and what's failing. Fedora has the right idea. Ubuntu used to show the info by default in 6.06 I believe. Shouldn't be a hard feature to add. Since it just shows the progress bar by default till you click a "show more info" button/triangle, I don't think it should scare off the noobs too much.
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Primož Papič wrote on the 20 May 08 at 22:11
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I'm for verbose mode with esc or v
0 for this idea and 1 for Eldmannen's
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Raval wrote on the 16 Oct 08 at 17:13
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Didn't 6.06 boot up screen show you the splash with the text below?
If so, perhaps as an option you could boot with GUI but then have the option to show text below. The splash graphics doesn't use much space.
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