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I installed my ubuntu few days ago and everything was great until this morning when i started the computer instead of the ubuntu boot screen (with ubuntu and the dots ) i now get a black back ground with loads of writing moving down ...i want my normal boot screen back help! its not just a black background it has writings on it ... with green 'ok' starting each line

Ashom Ashom
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  • Ashom doesn't say he is booting into a black screen. He says it's showing text instead of the Ubuntu bootsplash. @Ashom Can you still login after the text-scrolling is done? – MadMike Nov 24 '16 at 10:56
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    Possible duplicate of [My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it) – Andrea Lazzarotto Nov 24 '16 at 16:43
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    So, can you still log in to your user profile? What's the content of `/etc/default/grub`? – David Foerster Nov 27 '16 at 09:54
  • Try pressing F8. – TheWanderer Nov 28 '16 at 00:34
  • @AndreaLazzarotto It's not a duplicate, it seems to boot, but it shows the text scrolling... – Tim Dec 05 '16 at 20:46

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You just see kernel starting messages, it's ok. But if you don't want to see them, first open your terminal and enter:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

This will open the text editor, search for a line looking like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="....."

If there isn't any quiet splash where I write ....., add quiet splash between those quotes. There may be other options, don't delete them, you may corrupt your bootloader.

Them close the text editor and enter

sudo update-grub

Restart the computer too see the effects and done.

razorx
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