Boot screen: Quiet or not?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 08:37 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> True, but if your machine hangs due to some fs problem  or some other
>> hang,  you'd have a tough time running dmesg
> 
> In this case, AFAIK the Ubuntu boot screen disappears and shows the
> error, at least that's what it has always done for me, etc. when fscking

Two solutions.

Turn off your monitor, or stop rebooting.

Ooh!  Run your computer headless.  Then you can access it remotely and 
never see ANY boot messages.

*sigh*