Text boot?

[Kimizor]

Hi. I'm trying to get a boot text instead of the pretty yet boring Kubuntu splash screen. I tried to fix this a few weeks ago in some file I can't remember the name of by changing "quiet splash" to "splash". I couldn't make a backup because "the file was read only for me". So... 1. Does anyone know the location of the file I'm talking about? 2. How do I make it read/write? I am genuinely sorry for my newbish. I hope this makes sense. I'm using 12.04 installed with wubi if that's helpful. Thanks, Kimi

[Zorael]

Open up /etc/default/grub in a text editor with root permissions. You can do this by hitting Alt+F2 to pop up a run box, and then entering 'kdesudo kate /etc/default/grub'.

Find the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line as below, remove splash, then save and exit.

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

[...]

If you also remove quiet your boot will be very very verbose, but perhaps that's what you want?

At any rate, after saving your changes, open up a terminal and run the following command;

$ sudo update-grub

Then you should be all set.

[gerrygprs]

Open up /etc/default/grub in a text editor with root permissions. You can do this by hitting Alt+F2 to pop up a run box, and then entering 'kdesudo kate /etc/default/grub'.

Find the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line as below, remove splash, then save and exit.

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

[...]

If you also remove quiet your boot will be very very verbose, but perhaps that's what you want?

At any rate, after saving your changes, open up a terminal and run the following command;

$ sudo update-grub

Then you should be all set.

Thank you. Worked on a HP 630 laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 with all updates