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Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

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With previous versions of Mint I'd put a hash in one line of /etc/default/grub to get a verbose boot but this doesn't seem to do anything now. I like to see something happening at boot and it seems for a while an animated logo has been absent - a black screen has too often for many of us suggested problems so it seems inadequate. So how can I get the boot gibberish back?

If this isn't normal, this is happening on both a 2gb 3ghz AMD pc with very new Radeon card and a 3gb 1.6ghz Intel 965-based laptop, both 64 bit.

Thanks.
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soccerz619

Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by soccerz619 »

I want to know the answer to this too. SuSe has a cool thing where you can hit escape during the graphical bootloader and go to a verbose one, and I think that is the only thing Mint is missing!
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Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

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Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by soccerz619 »

This is my grub in /etc/default/grub. To fix it, I should change the ="quiet splash" to ="verbose" or ="verbose splash" ?

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[# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"]
lutterworth

Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by lutterworth »

answer:


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
soccerz619

Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by soccerz619 »

@lutterworth: Should I back it up the default first? And just clearing it and leaving it blank will give me the verbose?
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Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by tpprynn »

I've just tried this and it seems fine. Just removing quiet splash and leaving the quotes and then doing sudo update-grub in the terminal and rebooting. It's not quite the full Debian 6 display of gibberish that I like, as it is slightly intermittent with some black screen still, but it will do. It stops the impression being given that the computer has had a stroke.
soccerz619

Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by soccerz619 »

@ tpprynn: "It stops the impression being given that the computer has had a stroke." haha ok. Thanks for the heads up. I had Suse which had a very verbose boot, but maybe this will be better than nothing, like you say!
pixpax

Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by pixpax »

Hi Folks,

this is my first post on this forum.

Just to confirm that setting:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
(removing "quiet splash" between the quotes)

in /etc/default/grub , followed by update-grub did the trick.

A boot blank screen is a bit scary... As soccerz619 said, (open)SUSE had an excellent verbosing just pressing the ESC key during boot...

So far, so good: Mint ROCKS!

Cheers!
pixpax

Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by pixpax »

[SOLVED] Linux Mint - How verbose boot / no splash boot

Just for sharing with everyone a PM i received regarding this issue:

Hi!!

Well, in Mint 11 i don't know, but works fine in Mint 13/MATE.

1. If you just change this line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
into
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
in /etc/default/grub
the verbose starts at the fsck section.

2. Please try to uncomment, in the same file, this line:
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
(to
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
)

3. and finally to sudo update-grub2

This should work fine. You'll be in 640X480 instead of 1024X768 or whatever, but it works fine here.

***
Maybe uncommenting this line:
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 to GRUB_GFXMODE=1024X768 (and recommenting the "console" line)
but haven't tried yet...
***

Remember to sudo update-grub2 after
HTH

Kind regards,
pixpax
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Re: Mint 12 - how verbose/no splash boot?

Post by baj »

Nice! GRUB_TERMINAL=console gives lots-o-boot info. Problem is it flies by so fast, especially with an SSD.
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