I want to make it unnecessary to press F2 when I boot up SuSE 9.1 in order to get the text screen. There are instructions on what to do on the SuSE website for lilo but not for grub. There was also an extensive discussion of this topic a while ago. Yet no matter what I try I still can't get the text screen, though I can make the progress bar hold still. :=( Apparently the key is to insert a parameter splash=something, either in /boot/grub/menu.lst or via Yast (my preferred approach). But I'm still unclear on which of the following I should be inserting: append splash=0 splash 0 splash silent splash verbose And does it go in the section associated with the particular kernel I'm booting or in the global section? Precise instructions would be much appreciated, particularly since this must be something a lot of people want to do. Paul
On Thursday 24 March 2005 7:30 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Apparently the key is to insert a parameter splash=something, either in /boot/grub/menu.lst or via Yast (my preferred approach). But I'm still unclear on which of the following I should be inserting:
append splash=0 splash 0 splash silent splash verbose
Paul
From my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. This is the default choice. ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 9.2 kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31a selinux=0 splash=0 acpi=off resume=/dev/hda2 desktop elevator=as showopts initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd The line starting with kernel is broken into 2 lines by my mailer. There are 3 lines there; title, kernel and initrd. splash=0 in my grub gives the blue top and bottom border on console 0 or Ctrl+Alt+F1 while booting and when the system is up and running. You almost had it right but there is an = sign between splash and its parameter. Forget the 'append splash' as a boot line parameter for grub. That kind of fits in lilo but needs 'append splash=0' to be more correct. The difference between lilo and grub is that lilo has it as the "append" line and grub has it as the "kernel" line. I believe the parameters are almost identical except for the drive/partition nomenclature. Been a while since I dealt with lilo. Don't have a working copy available here anymore. Stan
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I want to make it unnecessary to press F2 when I boot up SuSE 9.1 in order to get the text screen. <snip> But I'm still unclear on which of the following I should be inserting:
splash verbose
This one.
And does it go in the section associated with the particular kernel I'm booting or in the global section?
particular kernel boot line. It probably says splash=silent at present. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
Hall Paul, if I remember correctly there is also the option to make a new initrd file with: mkinitrd -s off which disables the splash screen completely. -- Viele Grüße Michael
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