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I'd like to be able to disable the Ubuntu splash screen that I see on boot with the indicator meter of progress, and replace that with a text-only readout of the boot up process (such as you can get by hitting the esc key during the splash screen). Is this possible?

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Yes. Edit /etc/default/grub (using gksu gedit /etc/default/grub), and remove the "quiet splash" from the Linux command line.

After this run sudo update-grub2

Also from the GRUB menu, if you want to do this temporarily, you can hit E on a line to edit it, then Ctrl+X to boot the kernel line.

Make sure you don't have plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text package installed.

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In addition to this, if you want to see the kernel startup messages you'll probably want to remove the "quiet" boot option too. – James Henstridge Apr 4 '11 at 4:14
This worked. I wanted the kernel startup messages too, so by removing the "quiet" option too, it did what I want it to do. :) – The Lord of Time Apr 4 '11 at 4:52
And possibly uncomment line GRUB_TERMINAL="console" – Poma yesterday

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