Can't deactivate splashimage -> garbage on screen during booting

[Peter Baumann]

I have to deactivate the splashimage, because it doesn't work with my notebook. (Nothing is displayed and when the kernel starts the screen is full of garbage; and yes, I also tried pressing ESC while starting [trying if option hiddenmenu was set] and it doesn't help)

After todays update to grub version 0.97-1ubuntu4 there is no way to have the normal text menu. I even deleted /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz, but
update-grub said:
[...]
Searching for splash image ... found but preserving previous setting: splashimage=(hd0,)/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz
[...]

Doing the folllowing helps if there is no /boot/grub/default-splash.xpm.gz:
$ cd /boot/grub
$ mv menu.lst menu.lst.old
$ update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file ...

Could not find /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Would you like /boot/grub/menu.lst generated for you? (y/N) y
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
[...]

Be aware that I typed this in and so there a possibly some typos

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

I suspect the grub is not working here due to the problem reported in bug #31743. I see garbage on my screen too when my grub is not working. Copying the default-splash.xpm.gz instead of symlinking it fix the problem for me.

Whether it should be possible to deactivate the splash image easily is definitely another question. So I'll keep this bug open and not merge it with #31743.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks everyone for testing this feature and for those detailed reports.

We decided to disable this feature again for dapper and we'll re-enable it for dapper+1. Then without the alternatives system and better graphics.

Please just remove the
"splashimage="
 line in your
"/boot/grub/menu.lst"
 to get rid of the image, it won't be added again (during dapper).

Cheers,
 Michael

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Splashimage has been removed until after dapper.

[Mlt (mlt)]

I had a splashimage introduced during dapper and it worked ok.

However, now I have upgraded to edgy it has gone bad, as above.