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/image...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.
Code:
gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then, look for your kernel's 'kernel' line. On my computer, this looks like:
Code:
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:
Code:
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
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