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To display Ubuntu boot messages one time, do the following:

• Press “e” while the GRUB screen to select a kernel version is displayed.
• Edit the kernel line, again by pressing “e”, to remove any references to “quiet” – it is generally at the end of the line, with “splash”.
• Edit the fifth line, below the “initrd” line – the “quiet” all by itself on a line – so that it is empty.

To permanently display boot messages, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst:

• Edit (but do not uncomment) the “defoptions” line so that it reads:

  # defoptions=splash

• Edit your default entry (defined with the default entry near the top of the file) as in the one-time steps, removing “quiet” in both locations.
• Reboot.