Months ago when I first updated my Ubuntu OS, I was wondering why Lucid Lynx’s boot screen is soo ugly.
It’s big, pixelated and really ugly. (Karmic was waaay cooler..)
Then I just realized now that it’s not by default that ugly after I’ve seen the nice and smooth suppose-to-be boot screen of Lucid from my colleague.
So I searched the net and found this fix:
How to fix the big and plymouth boot screen logo of 10.04
I used the alternative 1 fix (of course) and hurray! The problem’s fixed!
Also, before, my Lucid boot screen does not show up but only a black screen, and then goes directly to the login page (I only see that ugly boot screen logo on shutdown :[ ). So I also search the net to fix this and found that you only have to comment out this certain line in this file /etc/default/grub for the logo to appear on boot:
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
After all this, yey! Everything’s awesome! Love the boot screen now and I see it on startup and shutdown. hihihihi
NOTE: when you first edit /etc/default/grub, it may be empty. It’s okay (that happened to me too). Just refer to this configuration set by default, and then apply the changes made from the fixes.