HOWTO: Get bootup status text back in Ubuntu 6.10

[Daniel15]

If you're like me, then you like to see some status information during startup. I personally hate how Ubuntu Edgy now hides the startup information previously shown under Ubuntu Dapper (you know, the usual messages on startup, while Ubuntu is starting all the services. In case you don't know, I mean the text at the bottom of the splash screen - See http://www.zdnet.com.au/shared/images/news/ubuntu/bootscreen.gif for screenshot). Well, it's quite easy to enable this again...

First, open your /boot/grub/menu.lst file with a text editor.
gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Then, look for your kernel's 'kernel' line. On my computer, this looks like:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet splash vga=0x318


Simply remove the word 'quiet' from that line. In my case, the new line would look like:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro splash vga=0x318


Save the file, and reboot. If successful, you'll see status information just like in Ubuntu 6.06

[frodon]

This is just great, thanks for the tip, i love it ;)

[Daniel15]

No problem... Glad to see that you like it as much as I do :D

[bionnaki]

do you have any suggestions for this thread: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192675&highlight=elegant ?

I'd like to have no ubuntu usplash image
but instead a colorful text bootup.

[jadugarr]

Thanks for the tip. I thought that turning quiet off would solve it, but I wasn't sure if the new theme supported it. I like to known what it going on at boot like you guys. Nothing wrong with enabling quiet by default, so that new users aren't intimated.