Re: Graphical spinning boot thingie

On 10/11/2010 11:05 AM, Phil Savoie wrote:
> Would anyone know how to disable this extremely annoying
> graphical boot? I would prefer to see all the wonderful green oks
> of a text based boot up screen. Am using M2010.1 Free.

In Mandriva Linux Control Center->boot->Set up boot system, 
choose GRUB with text menu.
In file /boot/grub/menu.lst delete (do not disable, delete) 
mention of the graphic splash.  E.g.

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Mandriva_2010.1 
root=UUID=e43blah resume=UUID=aa82blah vga=788

Near the top of /etc/inittab make sure the line is
id:3:initdefault:
to boot into terminal mode, with startx or startx GUINAME
used to start up the graphical desktop.

Cheers!

jim b.

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