Getting rid of splash screen during boot/shutdown

[mezzmer]

Is there an easy way to get rid of splash screen during boot/shutdown?

I would rather see messages scroll by so I can tell if something useful is happening or if the system has hung somewhere during the boot process. 

Thanks in advance.

I've duplicated the answer below so you don't need to read everything:

Full Credit to supergamer-with thanks to TheDead/Jerry for helping to get the typos out and making the answer crystal clear. 

For those who like the command line:
sudo leafpad /etc/default/grub
Make the change described below
sudo update-grub

There is an easier solution that can be easily modified. Use these commands.

sudo thunar

type in password:

Go to the /etc/default folder and right click and open up the grub text file. Find the line [size=1.35em]"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"[/size]

Make it look like this:
"#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Close out the grub text file and folder and you should still have the terminal opened up.
Run:
sudo update-grub

Reboot and it should be like you like it. To put the splash back in just reverse what you did with editing the line in the grub file.

[TheDead]

Yep, you can change the splash screen to something else.

Depend on the distro press F1 or F2 or Shift-F1 or Shift-F2 on boot logo.

But if you want to make this permanent follow this "simple" procedure :

*Make sure you have no pending updates or reboot before doing this.
**Make sure you have a backup since it modifies part of the Linux kernel.
Note : before anything, I'm not in front of a Linux PC at the moment so check if this folder is present :
/usr/share/plymouth/themes/details
If it is, continue...

Open a terminal Windows and type (or copy-paste) this line:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/details/details.plymouth 100


sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

Choose the details.plymouth line number (i.e. 3)

Then do ...
sudo update-initramfs -u

Rebootz you computar and get l33tz rezultz!

Cheers!

[supergamer]

There is an easier solution that can be easily modified. Use these commands.

sudo thunar

type in password:

Go to the /etc/default folder and right click and open up the grub text file. Find the line [size=1.35em]"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"[/size]

Make it look like this:
"#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Close out the grub text file and folder and you should still have the terminal opened up.
Run:
sudo update-grub

Reboot and it should be like you like it. To put the splash back in just reverse what you did with editing the line in the grub file.

[TheDead]

[member=6935]supergamer[/member]
I just tried your recommendation and it didn't work for me
Could it be because I'm in a VirtualBox machine?

[TheDead]

Correction, now it works you have to do
sudo update-grub
after editing the grub file...
The information was right into the config file itself, no internet search LoL

[supergamer]

Sorry when I was modifying the reply I guess I left that out. Yes you need to run" sudo update-grub then reboot. I'll fix the post.

[Valtam]

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[supergamer]

Way to many things going on out in the country and dealing with an ice storm and not paying attention to my writing. Will fix.

[mezzmer]

There is an easier solution that can be easily modified. Use these commands.

sudo thunar

type in password:

Go to the /etc/default folder and right click and open up the grub text file. Find the line [size=1.35em]"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"[/size]

Make it look like this:
"#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Close out the grub text file and folder and you should still have the terminal opened up.
Run:
sudo update-grub

Reboot and it should be like you like it. To put the splash back in just reverse what you did with editing the line in the grub file.

Thanks supergamer-That's exactly what I wanted/needed - I've duplicated your corrected response here to make it easier for others to find and confirm that I've tried it and it works.  Thanks to TheDead/Jerry for helping to get the typos out.