How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Derek Broughton]

Catalin David wrote:

> Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>>    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)
>>   
> I really don't know which is the combination I press to stop, but it is
> one of the following:
> 
> Ctrl+S   /       Ctrl + Q     /      Alt + Q    /       Alt + S.
> 
> I believe it is Ctrl+S though.

Kids these days!!  Anybody who learned to compute before the CRT would know
that it's ctrl-S (XON), ctrl-Q (XOFF)  :-)
-- 
derek