On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote: > No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after > login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log > will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a > particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show > specific lines of dmesg.log pertinent to your search. I'm coming at > this from a blindness perspective and use of speakup on my linux box and > that for me makes life far easier over here.
I'm coming at this from an ex-centos user and i like to see the messages as they happen before logon, so that I can spot anything out of the ordinary. Thats why I want them readable, and reading the log after logon is not acceptable. Thanks Sharon. > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that >> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get >> to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so >> that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during >> bootup and before the logon screen, and so far there is a parameter in >> grub which controls this, but what is it and how do i access it >> please? >> -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 6,0.3, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3.4.4 Registered Linux user 334501 -- 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/cam9u--cpnz-k-scmrc-5eamqrn9moxf80-oydjve+zth71+...@mail.gmail.com