Verbose shutdown

[Ranmadhu]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Noiano wrote:
>
>   
>> when I start a shutdown sequence I only get a red line saying "The
>> system is being shut down" or similar. With version 6.06 I used to
>> get message such as
>> "terminating process x"
>> "sending kill signal to all processes"
>>
>> How do I make the shutdown sequence verbose as in the past?
>>     
>
> Probably by _booting_ without the splash option.  I could be wrong about
> that, but it sounds like your issue.  When splash is enabled you see the
> splash screen on both startup and shutdown, rather than a console.
>   

You should also remove the "quiet" option too. They're both in 
/boot/grub/menu.lst. Scroll down to the line  "kernel   
/boot/vmlinuz...quiet splash".

Ranmadhu