How to get proper error reporting for shutdown/startup screen?

[rabcor]

I’m having an issue where sometimes on shutdown/reboot my system hangs.

I don’t get any proper error reporting or information on the screen that comes up, just a blinking underscore underneath an old message about hard drive checks from boot.

How do I enable proper reporting on this screen, so I can see where it actually hangs?

(I know this information probably exists from a simple web search but I just don’t know the proper terminology and can’t find it)

[realmain]

If you have quiet in your kernel parameters, you can remove it, which will provide more info.

You can also look at journalctl to check the issues:

journalctl --list-boots
jorrnalctl -b <input a boot ID from the above command>

[rabcor]

Thank you.