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14 questions linked to/from How can I disable the purple splash screen at boot?
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How do I disable the boot splash screen, and only show kernel and boot text instead? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Get back geeky grub [duplicate]
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How can I disable the purple splash screen at boot?
I installed Ubuntu Natty but I dont like the loader. The puprle screen gets on my nerves and I miss seeing all the action ...
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How to disable boot screen, just show the text output? [duplicate]
When I turn on my computer, it shows a purple screen that says 'Ubuntu' in the middle. Pressing the 'down' key hides it and shows a terminal. How do I make it show the terminal by default? I've looked ...
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Disable all splash graphics/texts on startup and shutdown? [duplicate]
I have LUbuntu running on a special device which runs a single program on startup and ever. I only need the user to see the splash of my program. BIOS has been taken care of. Now for the rest. What do ...
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GRUB_DEFAULT = _ is not working properly
I did this setup due to Kernel upgrade bug:
GRUB_DEFAULT = 4
in /etc/default/grub
Than I executed
sudo setup-grub
However, it didn't work out. My desired version is 4.2.0-16-generic, because 4.2....
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How can I disable the purple bootloader splash at boot?
This question has been answered before, but neither of the methods in the accepted answer worked for me on 11.10.
First I tried editing in /etc/default/grub, and then running sudo update-grub. But ...
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How can I restore a broken theme in GNOME Shell?
My GUI has changed into some crappy looking theme, I don't know why it happened and I want to get the default looks back!
It happened after I was mucking around trying to get the purple grub menu ...
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Black screen and blinking cursor on boot [duplicate]
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I'm having trouble booting into Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. When I turn it on, I get the BIOS menu and ...
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How to disable Plymouth?
apache ask for passphrase redirects to plymouth even when I'm remoted in using SSH and away from console.
How can I disabled plymouth?
Update: I did learn that I can sudo plymouth --quit and that ...
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How Can I Suppress "Load Fallback Graphics Devices" and "Plymouth Upstart Bridge" Messages During Ubuntu Server 14.04 Boot-Up?
When booting Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, I see messages such as:
* Starting load fallback graphics devices [FAIL]
and
init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process terminated with status 1
and
init: ...
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How to disable the bootsplash?
While I was using Ubuntu 18.04 I was so annoyed with the purple bootsplash and used a png logo of HP as my bootsplash. But yesterday, I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and now I realized that the new Ubuntu ...
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Viewing tail -f ---disable-inotify /var/log/syslog during bootup, GDM, GNOME
During bootup, I was able to disable splash screen (using How can I disable the purple splash screen at boot? instructions) so that I can see the scrolling information (controlled by init.d) of what ...
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How to get past the purple screen of death with multiple GPUs using Nvidia drivers?
I have an Ubuntu 17.10 installation and I would like to connect two Nvidia GTX 1070 graphic cards and use the Nvidia official driver instead of the Nouveau drivers.
I have tested the following ...
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How do I debrand the boot splash screen? [duplicate]
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how to make a custom boot up splash animation?
When I boot up my computer it displays a splash animation: the word "Ubuntu" with dots underneath indicating that the system is ...
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