Disabling boot up message

[Member jackson312]

I am using antiX 17.4.1. I have a custom boot screen (from the kernel). The antiX message print over the splash screen. Is there a way of disabling these messages?

Thanks..

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See if editing, /etc/default/grub
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT = “quiet”
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It is what you need.

Do not forget in the end,

#grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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I am also interested in this solution because I have to install antiX on a friend’s computer who certainly does not want to see the logs. But the above solution doesn’t suit me. Here is my / etc / default / grub:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="-1"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="<code>grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/lsb-release | cut -d= -f2 | cut -d\ -f2 2> /dev/null || echo Debian</code>"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL="console"

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command 
vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE="640x480"

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER="false"
#GRUB_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/wallpaper/grub/back.png"

GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"

Nevertheless, the log is displayed. I need this solution also for logging out, of course.

I would like to have a boot logo and a logout logo, like the one at Lubuntu and other distro.

Who can help me with this? I also installed the tool “Grub-Customizer” and have 3 partitions with different Linux. But on the friend’s computer there will only be one partition with antiX.

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@jackson312
I have no suggestion for you, but one comment: antiX 19.X live boot mode has a loading splash screen like you want, but that was implemented, for some technical reason, only in live mode, not in the installed version… I’m assuming making it work in a installed version is no easy task, or the dev team would have done that in 2019…

If you do find out how to do what you want, please, do share your findings here!

P.

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banned wrote:

I would like to have a boot logo and a logout logo, like the one at Lubuntu and other distro.

As far as I know you need one of two things to achieve this:
A) You need to patch a kernel with a bootsplash image (seemed to be possible until kernel 4.19, and I find instructions for 3.X kernels too).
Right now it seems impossible.

B) You need to use plymouth to achieve this, but this requires systemd (antiX linux is systemd free). So impossible on antiX except if you enable and install systemd (but then you are on your own, we will not give support)

The final not-so-good solution is to add the parameter console=tty2 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub just after quiet.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet console=tty2"
It will keep the grub menu image for as far as it takes too boot the system. It isn’t that good of a hack, as it seems to be stuk instead of loading, but that is as far as I can do. To make it look nicer, change the grub menu background using grub-customizer or from Control Centre > session > set grub boot image
I discovered this “hack” while reading runit related posts on reddit. I tested it on antiX21a2-runit, but it should work on any antiX edition (it simply moves all the “cascading text” to tty2, and tty1 (default “booting console”) remains unmoved.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

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@Xecure

The “project” is stopped at the moment :-). Looks like my friend’s computer has a BIOS problem. BIOS only boots now and then. And when it does, the screen will freeze after a short while, or worse, the computer will shut down automatically. I will definitely test it later. Maybe you also have to change the loglevel?

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To make it look nicer

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I would just install Lubuntu for that “friend” and be done with it.
Otherwise, you are setting yourself up for a neverending suport burden.

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Lubuntu need more than 1GB to run good. But I was trying Bodhi, that was nice. Just some system windows wehre out of screen an I could not fix it. Move them with pressed “ALT” is not for her.

Also Q4OS would be possible, but in a few months there will come the new version, that will need at least 1GB or more.

So better with antiX, so she will have the same then me and I will be more experienced with it. There are some more, like Void, SliTaz, Puppy, but I don’t know them an would need much time to test them.

And with antiX I could find now everything she needs, also the automaticly update, that is very importand for her. She will not do the updates, if there is not al least a icon that tells her to do. The menu I can make simpler and remove all the apps, that she don’t need and better don’t use. She is a normal user and understand nothing about Linux.

But as the old notebook is not more working fine, first we will have to find a other one. We don’t have money to buy one, not even a used one. Things are bad in Buenos Aires.

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