Like to see bootup messages

[Karl]

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.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> Thanks
> Tim
> 
Even with quiet you should get some messages, not a black screen.  Did 
you remove "splash" from the kernel line?

Karl