Ubuntu boot screen

Ted Gould ted at gould.cx
Tue Apr 22 19:43:19 MST 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:33 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> writes:
> > How can I get the normal boot sequence to display the boot log to STDOUT 
> > instead of the fancy-yet-useless progress bar?
> 
> Hitting ESC or F2 during boot should get you what you want. A typical 
> reason for the boot process to halt is waiting for a network conntect.
> 
> Fedora and Red Hat automatically switch to a more detailed view if 
> something [FAILS]. I wonder why Ubuntu doesn't?

Ubuntu does in general, it is curious why it doesn't in this case.  The
Ubuntu boot loader will also drop out if things like journal recoveries
on journalled filesystems occur.

		--Ted

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