Plymouth and linux boot process

[Tom H]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:35 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Is there any documentation on Plymouth? I downloaded the source and
> looked at the doc directory, where there was a single man page that said
> about nothing:-(
>
> 1.  If I have to wait for the system to boot, I would like to see the
> boot commands and possible error messages. I do not understand looking a
> a picture.
>
> 2.  After the boot, I would like to access the login prompt. There are
> things I prefer to do in server mode than from a GUI.
>
> I realize can access server mode by using one of the alternate logins,
> such as ALT-F2. But this and the command display should be easier. What
> happened to quiet splash?

Edit /etc/default/grub and set
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
(or at least no "quiet" or "splash" for the first two variables)
and then run update-grub.