Tuesday, May 11, 2010

show me the splash screen

A small thing that irked me was the absence of splash screen (aka Plymouth) on boot-up. I put the advice from two entries in the Ubuntu forums together and came up with this solution:

* type the following lines separately into a terminal, pressing 'enter' after each:
sudo bash
xxxx (password)
echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
update-initramfs -u

He presto! Splash screen.

Unfortunately there is still a slight delay before the splash graphic displays, and the boot-up process is slightly longer. But I'll live with that.

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