On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:40:19AM -0400, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > It seems that certain messages are not recorded by dmesg: such as isapnp > messages. (I've never been able to see the board ID and "activated OK" message > in dmesg -- only on the console.) Anybody can explain why?? I'd like to have > dmesg record *every* bootup message, so that I don't have to avoid switching > VC's right after bootup in order not to erase important messages that may not > appear in dmesg.
dmesg only records output produced by the kernel. Since isapnp is a userland program it gets ignored. Failing other solutions (make your console a paper tty? :-) ), you could modify the init scripts to send output wherever you like. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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