Ugly Boot Screen after upgrading to 12.10

Posted by Sir Linuxalot on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Sir Linuxalot
Published on 2012-11-09T07:29:06Z Indexed on 2012/11/13 23:24 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 287

Filed under:

Is there a way to change the ugly boot screen in 12.10? It seems to have rolled back to that 8-bit blocky looking thing with tiny orange dots underneath. It then breaks into process code under that, and it looks ghastly.

I've read some tutorials on getting Plymouth to do some neat things, but they were for older versions of Ubuntu.

I'm running a GeForce GTX 460 if that matters. Any help would be appreciated.

Update: I've noticed/found a couple of things. The upgrade on my laptop didn't do this. It still uses the "normal" Ubuntu boot logo (using Plymouth, I assume). So, something is off with my desktop. And, I found and installed Super Boot Manager to see if that would help. With that, I enabled Plymouth and added a new theme, but the machine still boots with the block-ugly logo. Finally, I messed around with Grub on boot and added "nomodeset" after "quiet splash" and added it while deleting "quiet splash." None of these solutions worked. I'll keep hunting...

© Ask Ubuntu or respective owner

Related posts about plymouth