Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

[mike]

John Richard Smith wrote:

OK, I've got a B/W boot script back,

It seems to work this way,

When  boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my
case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1
To get a text based boot script  ,

Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash
set SPLASH=no
Edit /etc/lilo.conf
add to append= splash=quiet
Now I know how to do it the right way instead of uninstalling the
package. Thanks :-)
but I'm not sure if by removing the bootslash packages
one cound also achieve the same result without having
to edit the above ?
since I didn't have to before I reinstalled the kernel.
Well I should say I'm running mdk 9.1. I had the blue splash like monitor
on boot up and shutdown.
When I did a "rpm -e --nodeps bootsplash"
and rebooted no more blue splash. I still have a /usr/share/bootsplash 
directory
but its empty except for a /themes directory which is also empty.
Also I have no /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash file
my /etc/lilo.conf file has no entry it like append= splash=quiet.
I would guess that when it looks for a splash or a theme it does not find
one, so it doesn't use one and continues on with the process.

On another note John, did you get the text resolution you wanted on boot up?

Mike




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