Boot Splashes Redux

Recently I had to fix the boot splash on an Ubuntu MATE desktop system. The boot splash did not appear when booting. A little digging found a simple solution. Create the file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash and add the following:

FRAMEBUFFER=y

Rebuild the initrd.

I suspect this kind of glitch appears in other distros too. I recall having this same problem in Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE).

To some people this will seem like a simple fix. Yippee. Aren’t computers great? From a usability perspective the root question is why is this nonsense still needed on a modern Linux based system? Year of the Linux Desktop? Not as long as this nonsense exists.

Posted: October 22, 2017 Category: Usability Tagged: General, Ubuntu

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