How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Avi Greenbury]

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

You can append them at the grub prompt. Which, I agree, is hardly more 
ideal.

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Avi Greenbury