Displaying operations during boot and shutdown

[Tom H]

>>>> How do I get Ubuntu 9.10 to show me what it's doing while
>>>> it's booting or shutting down? On my Fedora Core machine I
>>>> can see everything that's happening and I prefer it that
>>>> way.

>>> Remove "quiet" and possibly "splash" from the boot options.

>> How do I do this?

> By editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and rebooting or, if you need it only
> once, when booting by entering in recovery mode, which is entered in
> two ways, depending on which ubuntu version you have: for Karmic
> Koala, press Shift, while for older releases press esc.
> Then choose the boot option, and modify it, following screen instructions.

If you have grub2, you have to delete "quiet splash" from either the
"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" or the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX" line (I do
not remember which one has this entry) in "/etc/default/grub" and run
"update-grub".