On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:12 -0500, Robbie Williamson wrote: > Apologies for this. While the systems startup text is normal, e.g. the > fsck stuff, the kernel messages are not, e.g. the usb stuff. I've dup'd > this to bug 438335.
Thanks. I should have found and read this myself, sorry for that. (Though it may help to include a link in the boot section of the next beta release notes or to otherwise manage expectations to avoid useless bug reports.) > Furthermore, if you'd like to improve the boot > experience, I suggest doing the following: > > 1) Convert to Grub2 > - sudo upgrade-from-grub-legacy This time, thankfully, I did search and found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/385053 So no, can't do that unfortunately because I don't have grub in the MBR. > 2) Relocate your console messages from tty1 to tty6 > - sudo vi /etc/default/grub > - Add "console=tty6" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT: > "quiet splash console=tty6" > - save and quit > - sudo update-grub Not sure whether this is a grub2 thing (the file did not exist), do did not do that yet. > 3) Enable usplash at boot > - sudo -i > - echo USPLASH=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/usplash.conf > - update-initramfs -u This did the trick. Now I go from grub to a white glowing Ubuntu logo on black background, then a few seconds of console screen with the cursor blinking in the top-left corner, and then the spinning mouse pointer and what I guess is xsplash, i.e., the dark/reddish "stage" graphics with spot lights from the top onto an Ubuntu logo/logotype, and a narrow white light gliding left to right as an activity indicator. All in all a clean-looking boot (for a non-Intel card I guess - using an ATi with free driver). Is usplash only enabled for fresh installs now? I had a quiet graphical boot in jaunty before upgrading. Cheers M -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss