Boot screen doesnt show ubuntu purple screen again

Question

I installed my ubuntu few days ago and everything was great until this morning when i started the computer instead of the ubuntu boot screen (with ubuntu and the dots ) i now get a black back ground with loads of writing moving down ...i want my normal boot screen back help! its not just a black background it has writings on it ... with green 'ok' starting each line

Ashom doesn't say he is booting into a black screen. He says it's showing text instead of the Ubuntu bootsplash. @Ashom Can you still login after the text-scrolling is done? — MadMike, Nov 24 '16 at 10:56
Possible duplicate of My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? — Andrea Lazzarotto, Nov 24 '16 at 16:43
So, can you still log in to your user profile? What's the content of /etc/default/grub? — David Foerster, Nov 27 '16 at 09:54
@AndreaLazzarotto It's not a duplicate, it seems to boot, but it shows the text scrolling... — Tim, Dec 05 '16 at 20:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 24 '16 at 16:31

You just see kernel starting messages, it's ok. But if you don't want to see them, first open your terminal and enter:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

This will open the text editor, search for a line looking like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="....."

If there isn't any quiet splash where I write ....., add quiet splash between those quotes. There may be other options, don't delete them, you may corrupt your bootloader.

Them close the text editor and enter

sudo update-grub

Restart the computer too see the effects and done.

Boot screen doesnt show ubuntu purple screen again

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