Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 22:37 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> > There are cases where a quick message of
> > a workaround or note during the boot process can give hints of how to
> > fix a quirk I run into later on.
>
> There are better ways for this than a busy boot screen. E.g., enable
> bootlogging in /etc/default/bootlogd, and/or run dmesg after start,
> and/or check your logs

True, but if your machine hangs due to some fs problem  or some other hang,  
you'd have a tough time running dmesg.