How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

[Derek Broughton]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 20.06.2008, 10:05 -0300 schrieb 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.
> or better just remove wuiet and leave splash where it is ;) that will
> give you the bootmessages *in* usplash by default ;)

But they don't _want_ that...
-- 
derek