The scrolling bar of doooooooooom

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
>    How do I get more information out of Ubuntu's startup than the scrolling
> bar of doom?  It's blue.  It's pretty.  It bounces back and forth.  It
> tells me absolutely nothing about why my machine hangs on booting.  It
> is precisely what is wrong with the boot process and why I railed
> against it in October of last year.  *sigh*  Unfortunately a check of
> that thread presents absolutely no information on how to get it to show
> me what it is hanging on.  Though I am amused that the person I was
> debating was merrily telling me that it should present that information
> automatically if something goes wrong.

Edit the grub boot line and remove "quiet" and "splash".

Pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 during the graphical boot will probably also show
you what's hanging.

Chris