Ubuntu 7.10 No startup splash screen

[ITWombat]

Something strange has happened. The normal Ubuntu splash screen with oscillating slider has disappeared. Instead I get a glowing but otherwise dead screen for about a minute. The screen then goes very dark before the normal

Ubuntu drum roll is heard and the logon screen finally appears.

 

Other than that the OS appears to be fine. Have I done something wrong in Grub?

[CyberNerd]

take a look in the file:

/boot/grub/menu.lst

 

 

title           Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=fdd34c79-fa3e-4839-8238-51581b91fab8 ro quiet splash
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

 

it should have the 'splash' option in the kernel line.

to play with the options you can install startupmanager

 sudo apt-get install startupmanager
sudo startupmanager 

[ITWombat]

Thanks Cyber. I will give it a whirl.