The scrolling bar of doooooooooom

[Rashkae]

Steve Lamb wrote:
>     How do I get more information out of Ubuntu's startup than the scrolling
> bar of doom?  It's blue.  It's pretty.  It bounces back and forth.  It
> tells me absolutely nothing about why my machine hangs on booting.  It
> is precisely what is wrong with the boot process and why I railed
> against it in October of last year.  *sigh*  Unfortunately a check of
> that thread presents absolutely no information on how to get it to show
> me what it is hanging on.  Though I am amused that the person I was
> debating was merrily telling me that it should present that information
> automatically if something goes wrong.
> 

Pres ESC at the grub prompt to open the grub mene.

Press e to edit the boot options of the kernel you want to boot (default)

Change the boot options to remove anything that has to do with splash
and optionally frame-buffer.  The only kernel options you should need
are the root device (ex: root=UUID=684c7396-a24b-495b-a59c-0ae17389e1e2
 ) and ro to mount the root device read only initially)

If you get the system to start, or if you boot from a rescue cd, you can
make this change permanent by editing the /boot/grug/menu.lst file.