Enable Verbose Boot
From AwkwardTV
For the Repair Volume:
Mount the repair partition.
mkdir /mnt/repair/
mount -t hfs /dev/disk0s2 /mnt/repair/
then edit /mnt/repair/com.apple.Boot.plist
Under key: Kernel Flags
add -v before rp=:///OS.dmg
For the normal OSBoot Volume:
edit /System/Library/CoreServices/com.apple.Boot.plist
Under key: Kernel Flags
add -v
Thanks to phoem for this information.
