On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Anand Arumugam <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Rags Linux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I have installed WinXp (32 Bit), Windows 7 (64 Bit) and Ubuntu (10.4) on >> my Pentium i5 machine. My monitor is >> Dell 2010M flat 20 inch wide screen. >> >> When I boot Ubuntu I dont see the classic messages I used to see something >> like below: >> >> Starting Crond [OK] >> Starting Keboard [FAILED] >> >> > ===> This listing of whats going on behind the splash screen was displayed > in versions older than v8.04 I think. In the file, /boot/grub/menu.lst I > think there is a flag that you can toggle to see the boot messages instead > of the splash screen. The comments above the flag, should give you details > on how to enable/disable the boot messages. But I am telling this from > memory. I moved on to centOS and Debian after v8.04. > > This is not the correct way to update the grub on newer systems. After Ubuntu updates a kernel they overwrite this file and you will lose any changes. The correct way is as I state4d above: To see the grub info edit /etc/default/grub and change line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" then run "update-grub" in the terminal and reboot. -- John
