i have a custom usplash bootscreen.
earlier today, however, my hard drive started making this whirring noise during boot, and i turned it off. the hard drive noise is gone, but, now debian wont boot.

grub comes up, i choose either debian or single user mode (usplash comes up for both) but, it wont boot. the loading bar just keeps on going. i know that its one of my drives got a file corrupted, but, i cant disable usplash, as i cant boot debian to remove the package. is there any way i can disable it by editing a file?

i need to see all the messages that usplash covers so i can see where the error occurs during boot.

When grub comes up, highlight the kernel you want to boot, then hit e then enter.
Edit the kernel line to change splash to splash=verbose and remove quiet as well if you want all the details of the booting process as it boots.
Press b to boot the kernel with the temporarily modified line.

You should be able to grab what the error is and report back.

i did that. i dont have a line in my kernel that says splash.

it just says quiet, when i remove the word quiet or change it to verbose, i see a brief line of text then i get the usplash screen, but without the loading bar.

if its any help, i used startup manager to configure usplash.

if it was me i would chroot into the install from a live-cd and remove usplash:

boot the live-cd
say the installed / is on /dev/sda1, lets mount it on /media/disk
mount some extra stuff
chroot into it and remove usplash
edit: might be it needs to be -> chroot /media/disk /bin/bash
just check it.

exit the chroot-environment, umount the disk and reboot
no guarantee this is right and won`t burn the house down, there might be more easy ways and good luck.

i tried that.

when i use chroot /media/disk i getwhen i use chroot /media/disk/bin/bash i get

ok, the errors in chroot were because i was using a 32bit livecd on a 64 bit installation. i just reinstalled debian. thanks for trying to help.