Exit Ubuntu Splash Screen

Question

Is there a way to exit the splash screen during boot and view the verbose boot without rebooting?

For future viewers sake: this is for GRUB2 on Ubuntu.

Answer 1

If you use grub2 then the following should do the trick for every installed kernel on every boot:

• make a backup copy of /etc/default/grub
• Open up /etc/default/grub as root
• Change the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
• save the changes
• run sudo update-grub
• reboot

This way this change will even be permanent after a kernel update. Also this is the only way that works in grub2 since boot/grub/menu.lst was in grub1 and is not used anymore in grub2.

More about configuring grub2 in ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

Answer 2

On bootup, press F2.

Now, you'll have the verbose feedback mode.

Answer 3

This works only for grub versions prior than grub2!

Open /boot/grub/menu.lst. You'll see a block like this:

title xxx
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=xxxx ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

Change it to:

title xxx
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=xxxx ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

Note that the kernel version numbers in your case may be different. Save the file and the splash screen should be replaced with a verbose boot from now on.