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Jiskya
Asked: 2012-05-06 21:50:48 +0800 CST

Is the absence of a boot screen ever going to be a problem?

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When I boot my computer, I've never seen a boot screen. I only get a purple or black background for about 45-60 seconds (which seems abnormally long to me, considering I have a fairly modern system and when the process of shutting down takes about 6 seconds tops). Is this normal? If not, any suggestions on a possible fix or what could be causing it? I see it sometimes when I shut down, but is it normal that I never see this image on boot up:

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boot 12.04

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    It could be that the timeout for the Grub menu is set to zero. You can have a look by installing Grub Customizer. The link below gives some great help as well as showing you how to install it. Good luck. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10340183

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  2. I don't think it will be a problem, because holding Shift during initial boot on swaps the purple screen for the text console where all sorts of messages are logged.

    Shift varies a bit per distribution, I believe it is for Ubuntu.

    The time required to boot is totally dependend on a number of things, this answer explains how you can figure out what your time is being spent on.

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