First things first – remember, always back up important system files before editing!
If you want to view the tradional kernel message output when booting into Ubuntu, you can do it as follows:
Edit /etc/default/grub and edit the following line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" |
Change it to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="--verbose nosplash debug" |
Then, run the following command
sudo update-grub2 |
It will likely take a few seconds. Then reboot and you should see the kernel messages written to the screen as with older derivatives of Linux.
Works perfectly on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS thank you very much!