Comment 36 for bug 444597

Welcome to the brave new world of Ubuntu==Microsoft Windows. In the old days, I could simply watch the system boot. Any hickup would be noticed easily and the cause could be investigated. Today, karmic covers everything with a boot splash, things go wrong underneath badly but we pretend everything is alright only to notice much later, that the boot process is broken. Instead of having really many people in the world seeing what is wrong and report the bug (the real advantage of open source), we only get tons of messages like above: it does not work and I cannot see a thing.

Sorry for the rant.

Can anybody just tell me how to get rid of the silly boot splash in order to see what the system is doing? I am sure the cause is then easily found.

Thanks,
Harald.