Comments on: How to Change The Bootsplash In Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

By: Quequotion

Quequotion — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:47:43 +0000

Why does usplash hang at boot so often? I don’t want anyone to tell me how to fix it without telling me why it happens.

What I hate the most is that the system always boots without error when I add the “nosplash” tag in GRUB but when I boot with “splash” and everything stops, I can’t get any output to tell me what’s gone wrong. Therefore the problem can never be solved….

By: Lozzaaa

Lozzaaa — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:57:05 +0000

@ Emeteco

If you ever want to get ubuntu back to normal (and still keep most of your configurations) just:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

no matter how much you screwed ubuntu up you can always just remove whatever you want and then reinstall ubuntu-desktop and it will all be fine again

By: Emeteco

Emeteco — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:30:01 +0000

Greets:

I change my usplash in an automated way, using a script to make ubuntu look like mac, and i randomly get the acpid:exiting error. Someone know a simple way to undo this process and return my system to a fresh install configuration? this will solve my problem? or i need to do a complete fresh install?

Thanks

By: lizarinha

lizarinha — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:49:47 +0000

Like Becca says you only need to recompile usplash source files, and use it with startupmanager, manually or how do you prefer

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:54:20 +0000

Thank you very much for posting this. I recently switched from Scientific Linux to Ubuntu, and the system would hang at boot almost every time. Some times I would have reset 15 times before it would load. However, it would load in recovery mode every time, thus I assumed it was the splash package that was the problem. Editing the menu.lst file didn’t alter anything, and thus it was a great relief to come across your tutorial. Removing usplash fixed the problem - I can edit the menu.lst file, and everything boots perfectly now.
Really I think the Ubuntu developers need to seriously consider either resolving the problems with usplash, as many people have being dealing with boot hanging over it, or switch it up to splashy, considering that splashy isn’t dropped by it’s respective developers.

By: olek48

olek48 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:52:54 +0000

I changed the boot splash in my Kubuntu 8.10 using KGRUBEditor nearly only. I removed text “hd(0,0)” from line including splashimage definition in file:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
after saving KGRUBEditor settings. Try it.
Best regards, olek48

By: Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:27:36 +0000

If you just want to change the boot splash graphics, like the Grub background or the graphics used for bootup process, you can also use the easy to use Startup Manager. It doesn’t require you to remove any software from your system.

Splashy has more features than usplash used by Ubuntu. Therefore I would like to see Ubuntu officially using Splashy instead of usplash, if Splashy is a project that is still alive, that is?

But hasn’t the Splashy project been in some sort of hiatus for many months now? That would make using it problematic, if it won’t get any updates etc. Even now their website has the latest news from Oct 29, 2007, so from over a year ago, although the newest version of software seems to have got some updates even quite recently, so maybe Splashy is back from the kingdom of dead software?

http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/

By: Arky

Arky — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:34:02 +0000

On Ubuntu HH the usplash packages comes with small shell script ‘/usr/sbin/update-usplash-theme’ it will allow you to change the usplash right away or else you can type the following commands manually.

update-alternatives --set usplash-artwork.so /path/to/usplash.so
update-initramfs -u

By: Sérgio Luiz Araújo Silva

Sérgio Luiz Araújo Silva — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:21:56 +0000

cp path/to/file{,backup} #backup easy:

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:07:49 +0000

most usplashes aren’t compiled for the new kernel, recompile them from source and then it’s easy to change to the new usplash with startupmanger

By: Nuras

Nuras — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:20:28 +0000

I use an application called “GRUBEditor” that does all these with GUI so you dont have to worry about command line stuff.

By: steven

steven — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:51:04 +0000

I’ve tried this things. And I found out, that before we install libsplashy1_0.3.10-1_i386.deb, we need to install dependency, thats why I add in terminal this command: sudo apt-get install -f libdirectfb-extra

There is something I would like to ask:
1. Can I make it the tux pics into widescreen 1280×800, because my notebook used that resolution ?
2. Why my selection operating system menu, didn’t change? I’m still in white and black default menu from ubuntu?

thanks

By: alex

alex — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:22:56 +0000

theres always bootup manager. it is basically a gui for modifying grub and usplash. sudo apt-get install bootupmanager
its a handy tool for when youre feeling lazy and dont want to modify usplash or grub with gedit/terminal.