Re: How do you monitor startup messages in Ubuntu?

Paul Johnson wrote:

Thanks for your feedback, but I think the answers are off the mark.
So far, the best option is to edit menu.lst so that all startup
messages show all the time to all users. That's a bit ugly, but there
are compromises in life.

Whose "best" option? It's just one of many.

Its not a very good solution for people who don't want to read startup
messages, however. In a computer lab setting (with Fedora, at least),
I can lock down grub, the bios, and users can still come in,
experience problems, and restart and hit the button that says "show
details".

And you could set it up that way for them, too.

The Ubuntu alternative seems to be either

1) I give everybody permission to act as root so they can edit the
boot menu (either interactively or in /etc/boot/menu.lst), or

Er, actually, it doesn't matter whether they have permission. if they're
booting, they can modify the boot options, unless you lock down grub (the
same way as in fedora).

2) Teach users a secret handshake, er, combination of secret
keystrokes, to read the error messages.

blah, blah, blah. Sorry if I _seem_ dismissive, but most people _don't_
want to see messages, and wouldn't know what they meant if they did. If
they want to know, the options are there and pretty simple to learn. If
you _want_ users to have the option, just give them a "Boot wth splash"
menu entry, and a "Boot with messages" option.
--
derek


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