After I ask Mrs Google she said to

..disable " "quiet splash" in grub file
Did not work.

Then I guessed this
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= "text"
Did not work either

Commenting out this way
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
# "quiet splash"

tic-tack-toe as first character on separate line did not work either

Yes , I do
sudo update-grub after I change /etc/default/grub


What am I missing ?


BTW
I get very short splash of text in upper left corner of the screen identifying /dev/xxx my OS is running on. Nice "feature".

PS
Linux Ubuntu 20

What exact information do you want from the grub boot process and what gave you the impression that there was information available?

I will grant there is, but there's no particular item called a "grub boot report"

So this is why I ask what information are you wishing to have grub output during the boot?

Also, would you prefer a boot log to be saved? (I believe there is one, and probably one can configure how much detail they wish it to contain)

I think there is a "noquiet" option you can incorporate into your grub cmdline, but noy recommending you just try things and instead it would be helpful to know what you wish to learn and see from this output.

SOLVED
The option to comment out "grub" file line

# GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= "quiet splash"

works just fine , my mistake

The better procedure would have been to adjust that line as follows:Based upon your desire for a "report", I suspect even better would have been: or possibly:or: