How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:

> 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.

   I have "quiet splash" in my kernel options, and Ctrl-Alt-F1 works

   What I feel rather frustating is that a lot of messages disappear
   before you can read them, and are not logged is /var/log.
   (and this is true for all Linux flavors I know)

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Pierre Frenkiel