[lubuntu-users] How to display all boot msgs during boot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:51:51 +0000, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
>Hi Harry,
>
>On 27 January 2018 at 19:01, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> How can I cause the boot msgs produced when lubuntu boots up to be
>> displayed on the boot screen
>>
>> Pressing `esc' causes some to show but I can see that some have
>> already flew by.
>>
>> I want to see everthing from grub screen all the way to final login
>> screen.
>>
>
>The Linux Kernel has a Ring buffer of messages.
>
>To see it, try this command:-
>dmesg | less
>
>To find out more about that command try:
>man dmesg

While I always booted with shown startup messages and edited grub.cfg
directly in the past and nowadyas use syslinux, the answer to the OP's
question is provided by

https://askubuntu.com/questions/33416/how-do-i-disable-the-boot-splash-screen-and-only-show-kernel-and-boot-text-inst
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2331376
etc.

This is the kind of request, that usually is replied with a
http://lmgtfy.com/ link ;).

However, booting a modern Linux install from a SSD taking a look at the
log files most of the times is more useful, than trying to follow the
startup messages during startup ;). Actually booting my current Ubuntu
or Arch Linux install from a SSD is that fast, that the displayed
messages are seldom readable.

Note, I'm using a relatively modern, but slow CPU and stratup already is
too fast to read the messages. I still preffer startup messages over
eye candy as a matter of (nowadays unreasonable) principle.

-- 
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