- Open Mageia Control Center
Go to "Boot"
Click on "Set up boot system"
Click "Next"
Click "Modify"
On the "Append" text input box, change "splash" to "nosplash"
Click "finish"
That's it. The reason you have to take out the boot splash entirely instead of simply setting "nomodeset" in the kernel args is because radeon changed their drivers to be KMS only, so once the mode is set in bootup, you cannot change it back.