oneiric: progress status during boot-time fsck?

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Wednesday 11 April 2012 11:43 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 09:19:09 AM D. R. Evans wrote:
> > How do I get the old detailed fsck progress messages that one normally
> > sees
> > on most Linux distros, and we used to see on *buntu?
> 
> I believe you can hit escape while the splash screen is up and it will start
> showing the boot process.
> 
> What I do is:
> 
> 1) Go edit  /etc/default/grub   and change the line:
> 
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
> 
> 
> from what it was  (quiet splash)  I think
> 
> 
> and then
> 
> update_grub

That would be update-grub :-) Thanks for the tip though. I had forgotten where 
to do this.

> 
> Next time you reboot, the splash screen is gone.

If you want to get rid of the whole of Plymouth all together, install the 
dummy package following the directions at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/556372/comments/78

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Thomas Tanghus