How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Derek Broughton]

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

That's "quiet", not "silent"...

> 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.

Why do people always say "that's stupid", when they mean "_I_ don't
understand"?

Of course Ubuntu gives you an easy way to do this - select the "recovery
mode" entry in the grub menu.  When it stops booting and tells you to enter
your password or Ctrl-D, type Ctrl-D and the boot will finish.

Secondly, of course you don't have to modify menu.lst, just tab to the
correct line, type E (for edit), tab to the correct line, type E, change
the line, <enter>, type B (OK, I do this often enough that it's automatic -
so I may have got this slightly wrong, but it's simple enough).

Finally, "splash" isn't really hiding anything, it's just putting a splash
image on an unused console.  The console messages are on Ctrl-Alt-F8
(iirc - again, it's automatic, I tend to just cycle through the consoles
from Ctrl-Alt-F7 onwards), so if you change menu.lst to remove the "quiet"
options, it won't appear any different when you normally boot, but you can
always use Ctrl-Alt-F8 to get to the correct console to see the messages.
-- 
derek