grub question

[Tom H]

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 9 March 2013 19:05, Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to see the messages as I boot the
>> system. I assume I need to edit /etc/default/grub and then run update-grub
>> in order for the changes to take effect. What parameters do I need to change
>> in /etc/default/grub?
>
> Change the line
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
> to
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
> or maybe just comment out the original (add # to the front) and add
> the new one as a new line, that makes it easier to go back if you want
> to.
> Then run
> sudo update-grub
> as you have suggested.

You can also just comment out the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" line.

Shouldn't you also switch to a text plymouth theme?