Text Based Splash Screen?

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#1

Hi. I have a question regarding to the Graphical Splash Screen.
Is their a way to show the text based startup on booting your OS?
So. I don’t the OpenSuse Background with the loading line.
But i want the half transparent black background if possible or just the black background with all the loading texts.
The black and white screen.

Thanks in Advance.

Bad English is because of i’am Dutch.

#2

Change
splash=silent
to
splash=verbose

in /boot/grub/menu.lst

You can just hit Esc. to temp see the same thing

#3

Thanks, is this the only way to set this?
Or are there also other files without the boot options where you can set silent to verbose?

#4

No, that’s all. But you can change the DEFAULT_APPEND variable in the file /etc/sysconfig/bootloader if you want to change the default for future kernels.

#5

On 08/12/2011 10:16 AM, ryanrio95 wrote:
>
> Thanks, is this the only way to set this?
> Or are there also other files without the boot options where you can
> set silent to verbose?

both of the other posters are correct (there are no other files), but
there is another way to change the file they name, and that is to make
the change in YaST, go System > Boot Loader > then arrow up or down
until the line with the check mark on the left is highlighted and then
click “Edit” at the bottom…

now, be VERY careful…look in the block named “Optional Kernel Command
Line Parameter” and find the “splash=silent” and change it to
“splash=verbose” (and make NO other changes) then click “Ok”…and you
will see the messages scroll by during boot and shutdown (like i do)

btw: -=welcome=- new poster

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#6

Thanks for the useful help.
It’s working. I like the way i can boot my system now :slight_smile:

#7

I want to do something more with this.
On the Firstboot it doesn’t use the menu.lst or bootloader so can i change this startup to verbose also? and set the timeout??

Thanks in Advance.

#8

If I understand you correctly
You don’t want a graphical boot menu

In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst
You will see a line in the top section, that looks like this
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message
Simply add a # to the beginning
#gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message

That should do what I think you are asking

#9

Yess :slight_smile:
Thanks

#10

No worries
Enjoy