How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Alan Milnes]

Paul Johnson wrote:

> Thanks for your feedback, but I think the answers are off the mark.
> So far, the best option is to edit menu.lst so that all startup
> messages show all the time to all users.  That's a bit ugly, but there
> are compromises in life.
> 
> Its not a very good solution for people who don't want to read startup
> messages, however. 

Absolutely agree.

> Honestly, Fedora copies Ubuntu often enough, why can't Ubuntu copy
> Fedora on just this one thing. Put a button on the spash to let us
> read the output as the modules load and services start.

Actually the way *every* Linux distribution I've used in the last few 
years (except Ubuntu!) is that you hit ESC and it switches to verbose mode.

Alan