Re: Graphical spinning boot thingie

On 11/10/10 02:11 PM, David Guntner wrote:
> Gary Montalbine grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>
>> On 10/11/2010 11:05 AM, Phil Savoie wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 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.
>>
>> Try pressing the escape key. It should put you in the text portion.
>
> That works, of course, but if you don't want the image to come up at all
> during boot, you can add an append line to your boot loader.  If you're
> using grub, I don't know how to do this, because I've never used grub.
> However, if you're using lilo, the line would look something like this:
>
>          append="resume=/dev/sda6 splash=verbose"
>
> You wouldn't want to change the "resume" part; just add the "splash="
> part.  So if you're using grub instead of lilo for your boot loader, get
> into it and find where-ever it is that you can add an append, and put
> that "splash=verbose" there and see if that takes care of it for you.
>
>               --Dave
>

Thanks Dave!!

The append line worked.  Funny, I changed it using the linux-nonfb 
choice in MCC.  Made sure non-fb was the default, but no luck.  So, I 
manually changed menu.lst for all kernels to you append line and now I 
have back what I prefer--a nice text boot up.

Thank you Dave,

Phil