Hiding the boot-up text in Ubuntu

Hiding the boot-up text in Ubuntu I installed Startup Manager in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to try to hide the boot text that is displayed on screen. I've played with numerous combinations of options as described in this guide. Particularly these:
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Guest [Entry]

"To disable boot messages, you need to pass the quiet option to the kernel at boot time. This is usually done by editing the grub configuration file at /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Detailed descriptions on exactly how to go about this on Ubuntu can be found in the Ubuntu wiki.

Note that you are NOT supposed to uncomment the # kopt=<options go here> line, as all the commented lines in the menu.lst file is parsed by update-grub, which modifies the kernel entries further down in the file accordingly."

Guest [Entry]

"Alternatively, you could run Karmic, it has one built in and it's pretty much a Release Candidate now.

http://ubuntuforumsdotorg/showthread.php?t=1238409&page=10"