Feisty reboot invisible??

[Michael Satterwhite]

I just installed Feisty, replacing Dapper. When I boot the system, the screen 
goes completely blank and remains that way until the signon screen comes up. 
My  kernel line in menu.lst looks like this:

kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic 
root=UUID=b753f44f-ae42-4cc3-9c36-dbadd8fd5bfb ro quiet splash

I've tried taking the "quiet" off, but that doesn't seem to do anything. The 
problem with this is that there's no way to tell that the boot is progressing 
or if the machine is hung.

Can anyone suggest how to get *SOME* feedback during boot?

tia
---Michael