Enable verbose boot:
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