Comment 2 for bug 129010

In hardy alpha 5, the "quiet" seems to be somehow implicit - at any rate, there is no way to remove it from the command-line as one could previously. It seems that
 quiet, splash=silent
have been forcibly hardcoded in, and the result is that there is no way to get the status messages, no matter what boot parameter I try! So this doesn't only apply to the alternative install disc.

(Also, most distros let you press Esc (when bootsplash is being shown) to see the full boot messages; Ubuntu doesn't.)