How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> I feel uncomfortable that Ubuntu just shows a logo and a progress bar.
>  Sometimes, after a kernel upgrade or package install, it is important
> to read the startup messages to see if modules fail to load or such.
> That's the only way to know, as far as I can tell, without grepping
> about at random in /var/log.
>
> Example: kernel upgrade occurs, and openafs kernel module needs to be
> manually rebuilt.  With the standard Ubuntu logo glowing in beautiful
> orange, I have no way of knowing until the user logs in and can't
> access her afs files.
>
> Example: after the install of lm-sensors, one is supposed to manually
> run the sensor detector program.  The startup process tells you so,
> but in Ubuntu you can't see it.
>
> In other Linuxes I've used, there's a button or something to click on
> to display the startup messages.  Ubuntu got that?
>
> pj
>
>   
    If you want every detail on bootup at the time of bootup you can get 
that booting with the rescue boot in Grub just below the one your using. 
Or if you can wait a minute you can read about it later in a Terminal 
with $dmesg | more. This tells all.



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