grub splash screen
I asked this question at the end of my last post and then realized that the subject was so different it should have its own post. I have tried to edit my grub file by using the 'e' option on the grub splash. It asks me for my login and password but does not allow me to edit the line. It just brings me back to the prompt. I created an administrator account with root privileges and used it as well as my regular account to try to access the edit line but with no success. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
I would follow these directions here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Splash%20Images%20and%20Theming). Make sure you do the one for version 2.0 since the latest version of trisquel uses grub2
Thank you for this information. However, I don't want to edit or change the splash image I want to temporarily change the parameters of the boot line. I want to remove, just temporarily, the "quiet splash" option in order to see the text scroll. I am unable to edit this from the boot splash and don't understand what I am doing wrong.
Oh, I'm sorry I misunderstood your question. Unfortunately, I am visiting my family right now and they only have grub 1.5 installed and grub 2.0 is significantly different so I won't be able to help until I get back to my main PC. Hopefully someone else can help soon though.
Ok, well I looked in the new grub documentation (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Simple-configuration) and it looks like you are supposed to edit the file (/etc/default/grub) and it looks like these 2 keys control the timeout ‘GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET’ and ‘GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT’. I would read the documentation because like I mentioned before I'm not at home and have not tested this so that is the best information I can gather without actually trying it myself.
I'm not sure I'm totally understanding what you mean when you say let the text scroll. Could you elaborate a little more?
Oh, I know what you mean. I'm pretty sure you want to change this option GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and change it to just "" and remove the quiet and splash options in the file I mentioned above.
Then at the end run this command "sudo update-grub"
Yes I want to remove the "quiet splash" option but just temporarily. This is usually accomplished by editing the kernel line from the boot splash. The option for doing this is there, it says enter "e" to edit boot line, but it fails when I attempt to use it. After I enter "e" it prompts me for my username and then my password but dumps me back to the boot splash without allowing an edit.
Ok, edit the file /etc/default/grub and edit a line that looks like this. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" Just remove the quiet splash part so that it now looks like this GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""and it should do what you want. Always make a backup of the file before changing anything.
Thank you SirGrant for your time and help.