I know that you can show the process of starting up by pressing alt + space during startup how do you have that as default on your computer? Also i would like to see it on shutdown if possible.
1 Answer
Edit /etc/default/grub
and replace
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
then run
sudo update-grub
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You need root permissions. Try
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
from a terminal. Dec 11, 2012 at 6:11 -
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@MartinOrda With the wink and your background I suspect you know this, but a newbie may take you literally. It would be dangerous to edit such a critical file as the bootloader config file with a word processor.– hazizDec 13, 2012 at 6:46
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I just find it amusing when people need to have a GUI editor to edit a system configuration file on a Unix derivative system. I wonder what they do if someone presses CTRL+ALT+F1 on their keyboard and there's no longer any GUI? :) Dec 13, 2012 at 12:59