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Special Installation Procedures

Find a detailed discussion of various boot methods, especially of GRUB

and LILO, in Section 8 on page 203.

3.4.1 The Graphical SUSE Screen

Starting with SUSE LINUX 7.2, 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 accor-

dance with the selected resolution and the graphics card.

3.4.2 Disabling the SUSE Screen

There are three ways to disable the SUSE screen:

Disabling the SUSE screen whenever necessary. Enter the com-

mand echo 0 >/proc/splash on the command line to dis-

able the graphical screen. To activate it again, enter echo 0x0f01

>/proc/splash.

Disabling the SUSE screen by default. Add the kernel parameter

splash=0 to your boot loader conﬁguration. Chapter 8 on page 203

provides more information about this. However, if you prefer the text

mode, which was 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 ‘frame-

buffer support’.

Note

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.

Note

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