Yer a sad man, Paul ... fancy having lived in Bermuda and NOT loving fish.
Actually, regarding splash screen or not:
In all of my Distros, I go not.
In the Debian-based it is a simple matter of going into /etc/default/grub and changing the line which says "quiet splash" to "noquiet nosplash", then save and exit. Run
and then reboot.
That way, you get to see what is happening at startup, and troubleshoot errors and warnings.
Works with different families as well eg RPM, Arch, Gentoo &c. You may just have to use the full command after changing the grub file.
update-grub is a "stub" for
Code:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
... and in the case of the RPMs eg Fedora, it may be
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/
grub2/
grub.cfg
... note highlighting.
Works for me
avagudweegend all
Wiz