How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[charlie derr]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Hex1a4 <hex1a4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Remove *silent* and *splash* from kernel options in /boot/grub/menu.lst
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> You mean there's no way I can easily turn this on during a boot
> without first starting, logging in, and making a "permanent" change in
> menu.lst?  

It is grub, so if you've got grub pausing at boot (as I always do for at least 5 seconds), then you would be able to interact with 
it and presumably customize the options being fed to the kernel.   But this isn't a single keystroke, and it's not something that 
you can toggle interactively later in the boot process (at least to the best of my knowledge).


That's weird.  Even MS Windows has a Function key to turn
> on startup messages.

Really?  What key and when do i hit it?

	~c