logging startup messages

[Dan Farrell]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:12:47 -0500
Emil Payne <EHSPayne at angelwoodpines.org> wrote:
> In your menu.lst, comment out or remove the single line that says
> quiet
> 

Or better yet, when the computer boots, press -ESC- when grub says so,
then select your default boot entry and press 'e', and you can select
the kernel line and edit it, removing quiet and splash at the end; and
you can also press 'd' to delete 'quiet' from its own line at the
bottom.  

these keypress commands are from memory; if they're wrong, the right
ones should be shown at the bottom of grub's menus.  

the advantage of doing it this way?  you don't have to remember to do
it before rebooting, and your changes won't be saved to menu.lst, so
you won't need to revert once you see what you need.  

Tip: try ScrLk (Scroll Lock) to read messages which scroll too quickly
to read, or to give you time to ponder.