On Sat, 4 Nov 2017 12:39:40 -0400, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
H.Merijn Brand composed on 2017-11-04 14:00 (UTC+0100):
On Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:48:01 +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote:
Man, that boot process takes forever. On my four years old laptop, it's under ten seconds until the login prompt appears and I couldn't care less about the graphics up to that point. I think you need to install an SSD instead... :-)
100% agree. I have set splash=verbose to true anyway. I want to see what happens and no delay for graphical nonsense (no offense meant to anyone who *does* care). Anything that slow down my boot should be optional and off by default.
$ grep splash /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/nvme0n1p5 splash=verbose quiet showopts plymouth.enable=0"
On all my openSUSEes, all of the following cmdlines are equivalent:
showopts root=LABEL=osTW noresume plymouth.enable=0 splash=verbose 3 showopts root=LABEL=osTW noresume plymouth.enable=0 splash=0 3 showopts root=LABEL=osTW noresume plymouth.enable=0 3
IOW, if you *want* any sort of splash you need to specify it. Otherwise, you get the kernel's plain text default of splash not. Note absence of quiet as well. I want to see *everything* in legible text, even though most of it goes by much too fast to absorb.
With Plymouth not installed, plymouth.enable=0 isn't required either.
If you want tty1 to retain the tail of boot messages instead of changing to an otherwise empty screen with login prompt, the file that the symlink /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service points to needs
TTYVTDisallocate=no
instead of =yes.
Thanks for all additional info -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/