Friends,
I am now trying Ubuntu 7.10. All my systems have on-board graphics (via, ati). Upon booting, after POST, my monitor stops working and displays an error message 'sync out of range' until the desktop is loaded. After that, everything is fine. It could be a problem with video mode switching. Kindly tell me if there is a way to disable graphical booting and have text-only mode.
Thanks in advance
A.M. Tony Allwyn

In your /boot/grub/menu.lst, you may have a line near the beginning of the file which starts with the work 'splashimage' or 'gfxmenu'. Comment out that line then reboot to see if that is the effect you want.

Change
splashimage to # splashimage
gfxmenu to # gfxmenu

I think you're asking how to disable the splash screen (I'm not sure that is what you're asking).

If that is it, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and remove the word splash from the line(s) used to boot your kernel.

The other possibility is you need to change the number on the vga= parameter on that same line. But I don't know an easy way to find a good number.

Edit: I wrote my message before seeing the one above it. After seeing that, I think it is more likely that is right (not sure my answer is wrong, but try the answer above it first).