Is there a way to exit the splash screen during boot and view the verbose boot without rebooting?
For future viewers sake: this is for GRUB2 on Ubuntu.
If you use grub2 then the following should do the trick for every installed kernel on every boot:
/etc/default/grub/etc/default/grub as rootGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" (if there is more than only quiet and splash between the quotes, keep it!)sudo update-grubThis way this change will even be permanent after a kernel update. Also this is the only way that works in grub2 since boot/grub/menu.lst was in grub1 and is not used anymore in grub2.
More about configuring grub2 in ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
