Splash screen doesn't show on boot

Question

Actually, that's slightly misleading, but titles ought to be simple. I have a splash screen: -For about two seconds during boot, right before the login screen appears. -During shutdown.

During boot I just see the same purple as used by grub. (Edit: when grub's background is changed, so is the one during boot, so grub seems to be... covering it?)

This has happened since I installed 11.04. 10.04 and 10.10's splashed worked fine for me.

Solution 1

I finally found the solution for me.

First I followed the instructions in the article "how to fix your Ubuntu splash screen".

Then I manually changed the resolutions in /etc/default/grub to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=800x600-24, mtrr=3, scroll=ywrap" ;  

(do not forget to run sudo update-grub afterwards).

Why, I do not know. In 10.10 it was 1280x1024-24.

I think it is with the changes in the Ati driver that comes with 11.04. But I have a nice splash screen at boot time and logoff time now.

Solution 2

For me the fix was found in comment #3 of this thread.

I just had too remove "vt.handoff=7" from /etc/grub.d/10_linux (just search/delete) and then run sudo update-grub afterwards.

Comments

[James Henstridge]

The boot process in 11.04 brings up the login screen a lot faster than the previous release. Is the complaint that this doesn't leave much time to see the splash screen?

[Vallery]

Nope, booting still takes about 30 seconds.

[Vallery]

Doing this worked for a few boots, but now the screen is simply shutting off during boot.

[Vallery]

Edit: Ok, it seems to work fine about 50% of the time. The other half the screen shuts of during boot, but turns back on when fully booted.