How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Derek Broughton]

Alan Milnes wrote:

> Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
>> email under this thread that said <Cont><Alt><F1> for startup messages.
>> I did this and the messages came up. Is there a command to incorporate
>> <Cont><Alt><F1> into system bootup? I would much rather have messages
>> than a progress bar.
>>   
> sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> remove quiet and splash wherever you see it.

or just remove splash.  "quiet", as one would expect, reduces but doesn't
completely eliminate messages.  With quiet, you'll see progress messages,
without it you'll see a pretty complete list of the things that are
happening.
-- 
derek