Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[R Kimber <rkimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:29:25 -0400
James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Felix Miata wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Why is it so difficult to make such a simple change???  What am I
> >>missing?
> > 
> >  
> > I solve it the same way immediately after every modern Linux
> > install. I edit /boot/grub/menu.txt to replace splash=silent (or
> > whatever splash= is set to) with splash=0. It's a lot easier than
> > mkinitrd.
> 
> All that does, is turn off the graphic display during boot up.  I am 
> able to change that to something suitable.  However, I still get that 
> ugly picture at the boot options and User/password screens.  Is there 
> any way of changing that???

http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/

might be useful

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/