[Techtalk] Boot splash screen

[Tricia Bowen]

To see what your bootup messages are, issue the following command:
$ dmesg | more
--Tricia

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:06:07 +0100 (BST), David Sumbler
<david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Jeannette wrote:
> 
> > I've also seen it simply referred to as "quiet boot".
> > Give us some info about the brand of your system BIOS, and someone here
> > might have it and be able to tell you.
> >
> > Jeannette
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, David Sumbler wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 05/08/04 10:11 +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > > When my branded PC boots, a splash screen with the manufacturer's name
> > > > > and logo is shown - this happens very early in the boot process.
> > > > > Undoubtedly it is preventing the display of possibly useful
> > > > > information.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a way to get rid of the splash screen?  I can't find anything
> > > > > which refers to it in the BIOS setup program.
> > > >
> > > > There should be an option for that in the advanced bios setup named show
> > > > logo, or hide boot info or something similar.
> > >
> > > Yes, but there isn't.
> 
> Because of the splash screen that I want to get rid of, I can't tell
> what the BIOS is - although, before the splash screen appears, I see
> "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-200 VGA BIOS Version 3.11.01.24.00".  I don't
> think that this refers to the main BIOS, though, does it?
> 
> The computer is branded "Tiny".
> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
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--Tricia