Fixing long boot-time with black screen in Gutsy

After I installed Gutsy, I noticed that my the boot-time was considerably longer than other with Gutsy. We were talking a couple of minutes of waiting after I turned it on. So I checked around for a solution, and found one. Here is what you need to do:

1. First we take backup of one of the files with this command in the terminal:
   # sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.original
   
2. Now in the terminal, run the following command:
   # sudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf
   
3. Edit the file's content to:
   

   # Usplash configuration file xres=1024 yres=768

4. Save it, exit the text editor, and run the following command:
   # sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
   
5. Find this section in the text file:
   

   ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash

6. Add defoptions=vga=791 at the end, making the section look like this:
   

   ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash defoptions=vga=791

7. Save the file and exit the text editor.
8. Now run the following command in the terminal(notice the ` are grave accents):
   # sudo update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`

This should fix the boot screen, and also result in a much faster boot.

Credits to malcam for his post on ubuntuforums explaining this.