Lately, booting Ubuntu on my desktop has become seriously slow. We're talking two minutes. It used to take 10-20 seconds. Because of plymouth, I can't see what's going on. I would like to deactivate it, but not really uninstall it. What's the quickest way to do that? I'm using Precise, but I suspect a solution for 11.10 would work just as well.
Ubuntu – How do deactivate plymouth boot screen
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Best Answer
Easiest quick fix is to edit the grub line as you boot.
Hold down the shift key so you see the menu. Hit the e key to edit
Edit the 'linux' line, remove the 'quiet' and 'splash'
To disable it in the long run
Edit
/etc/default/grub
Change the line –
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”
toAnd then update grub