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Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Asked: 2012-01-26 14:06:57 +0800 CST

How do deactivate plymouth boot screen?

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Lately, booting Ubuntu on my desktop has become seriously slow. We're talking two minutes. It used to take 10-20 seconds. Because of plymouth, I can't see what's going on. I would like to deactivate it, but not really uninstall it. What's the quickest way to do that? I'm using Precise, but I suspect a solution for 11.10 would work just as well.

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3 Answers

  1. Easiest quick fix is to edit the grub line as you boot.

    Hold down the shift key so you see the menu. Hit the e key to edit

    Edit the 'linux' line, remove the 'quiet' and 'splash'

    To disable it in the long run

    Edit /etc/default/grub

    Change the line – GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” to

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

    And then update grub

    sudo update-grub
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  2. How about pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 for console allowing you to see whats going on.. You can go back to GUI/Plymouth by CTRL+ALT+F7.

    Don't have my laptop here right now, but IIRC Plymouth has upstart job in /etc/init, named plymouth???.conf, renaming that probably achieves what you want too more permanent manner.

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  3. If you just want to see the message for a single boot (vs. a permanent change), you should be able to press the ESC key to hide the splash screen and reveal the boot console.

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