How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[NoOp]

On 06/20/2008 10:18 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:

>> 
>> 2) Teach users a secret handshake, er, combination of secret
>> keystrokes, to read the error messages.
> 
> blah, blah, blah.  Sorry if I _seem_ dismissive, but most people _don't_
> want to see messages, and wouldn't know what they meant if they did.  If
> they want to know, the options are there and pretty simple to learn.  If
> you _want_ users to have the option, just give them a "Boot wth splash"
> menu entry, and a "Boot with messages" option.

Speaking of secret handshakes... came across this today:

http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt

I can verify that Alt-SysReq-b works :-)