On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 10:53 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Hello, list. I am trying to find a way to track boot messages. I know about > things like > > dmesg|less > > and > > less /var/log/syslog > > but they don't cover everything. For example, /etc/init.d/console-setup > issues a message during boot that goes something like this: > > Setting up console font and keymap > > and this does not appear in either dmesg output or in /var/log/syslog. > Furthermore, it appears that the font change done by console-setup > kills my scrollback; so that Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown don't > work. That is, I can't scroll back prior to the font change. > > On some hardware platforms, such as s390, when running in a > virtual machine under z/VM, I can capture the console boot messages by > "spooling the virtual console". But on other platforms, such as > i386, I do not know of a way to capture all the boot messages. Does > anybody know of a way? (I am running Debian Squeeze.)
/etc/default/bootlogd Set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=YES and examine /var/log/boot or dmesg after rebooting. Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295280135.12602.4059.ca...@nero.internal.friendscout24.de