Tux Training

Turn off logo during boot

October 12, 2009, 2:07 pm

In Arch if you have the vga=793 (or whatever size) on your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.list, you may have the Arch Logo at the top of your screen during boot. On vanilla or unmodified kernels, you’ll get a Tux logo. You get one logo per processor.

Example:

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Some don’t like it, and it’s pretty easy to get rid of. Simply do the following:

In /boot/grub/menu.list change

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

to

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773 logo.nologo
initrd /boot/kernel26.img