[Ubuntu - GRUB]: How to Fix Ubuntu Boot Splash Screen after GRUB updates

How to Fix Ubuntu Boot Splash Screen after GRUB updates

1. The mystery of the missing boot splash screen

For many years now - on almost all computers that I have installed Ubuntu on - Plymouth, the graphical boot splash screen in Ubuntu stops working after the first install or update of GRUB.

It is all due to a little variable called $vt_handoff in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file that blacklists my graphic cards and decides wrongly that I am not allowed to see a graphical boot screen. 

Simply edit the grub.cfg file and remove all $vt_handoff references in the code.

sudo gedit /etc/grub/grub.cfg

2. The BASH script to fix the issue again and again

• Here is also a short bash script to do the job.
• Below is the contents of the FixBootSplash.sh attached file. You can download the script and use every time after a update / upgrade.
• After saving the file be sure to make the file executable by using chmod +x

#! /bin/bash
# Fix Ubuntu Plymouth Boot Splash 
# if entry exists for $vt_handoff use sed to search and replace
# write to tmp file - move to original 

checkVT=$(grep -c "\$vt_handoff" /boot/grub/grub.cfg)

if [ ! "$checkVT" -eq "0" ] 
   then
     echo "> Found vt_handoff removing ..."
     sudo sed 's/$vt_handoff//g' /boot/grub/grub.cfg > /tmp/.grub.cfg
     sudo mv /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg.backup
     sudo mv /tmp/.grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg
   fi

echo "> Done"

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fixbootsplash.tar.gz	10 KB