Like to see bootup messages

[O. Sinclair]

Tim Johnson wrote:
> I just installed kubuntu 7.10 on an older laptop with 512 meg of RAM
> and it boots *very* slowly. I find the black screen during bootup to
> be disquieting. I'd like to see bootup messages like I would see on
> redhat or slackware. I commented out the quiet directive in menu.lst
> but it doesn't make any differences.
You are on the right track. On the line that states the kernel to use 
there is an option "quiet". Remove it or change it to "noquiet".

Sinclair