Ubuntu
usplash package

system startup screen does not come up

Bug #180427 reported by andrerobert75 on 2008-01-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #68012: [Intel 828xx] No usplash on boot/shutdown. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	usplash (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

I have installed several versions of K/X/Ubuntu from version 6.06 to 7.10. The system installs fine, but when I restart, all I see is a black screen during system startup. After a few minutes, I do see the login screen, and I can log on successfully. I actually thought that my PC was broken because of this, since the screen is black when I first boot up the PC.

I have also noticed this on Debian Etch, and the Cassandra version of Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. I just could not find any links to report this on their sites.

My system info is as follows:
Gateway 500se
Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
Intel 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device
Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
1GB of RAM

Everything else is fine, and I also have an IBM T23 that does not have this problem.

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jtholmes (jtholmes) wrote on 2008-01-05:

thank you for your report

a work around is to edit the grub menu and remove the quiet splash entrys from the end of the kernel line
then boot and you will see the boot actions.

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote on 2008-02-05:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This particular bug can be reproduced on some intel cards and has already been reported, it is a duplicate of bug 68012, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.