The Graphical Suse Screen; Troubleshooting - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

6 Write the resulting file grub.iso to a CD using your preferred utility. Do not
burn the ISO image as a data file, but use the option for burning a CD image in
your burning utility.

8.5 The Graphical SUSE Screen

The graphical SUSE screen is displayed on the first console if the option vga=value
is used as a kernel parameter. If you install using YaST, this option is automatically
activated in accordance with the selected resolution and the graphics card. There are
three ways to disable the SUSE screen, if desired:
Disabling the SUSE Screen When Necessary
Enter the command echo 0 >/proc/splash on the command line to disable
the graphical screen. To activate it again, enter echo 1 >/proc/splash.
Disabling the SUSE screen by default.
Add the kernel parameter splash=0 to your boot loader configuration.
The Boot Loader GRUB
if you prefer the text mode (the default in earlier versions) set vga=normal.
Completely Disabling the SUSE Screen
Compile a new kernel and disable the option Use splash screen instead of boot logo
in framebuffer support.
TIP
Disabling framebuffer support in the kernel automatically disables the
splash screen, as well. SUSE cannot provide any support for your system if
you run it with a custom kernel.

8.6 Troubleshooting

This section lists some of the problems frequently encountered when booting with
GRUB and a short description of possible solutions. Some of the problems are covered
in articles in the Knowledge base at http://support.novell.com/. Use the
search dialog to search for keywords like GRUB, boot and boot loader.
(page 77) provides more information about this. However,
Chapter 8,
The Boot Loader GRUB 95