On Thursday 06 February 2003 21:49, Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:17:58 +0000 > > Andy Arbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think > > |>Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an > > | > > |equivalent?) > > | dmesg > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not quite what I was after... > > That~ seems to be messages from the kernel during bootup, whereas I > > was after the output from the entire boot process - basically > > everything you see go past onscreen as the system starts up. > > I, too, would love to see this feature. For example, my ALSA sound card > module produces error messages when loading, but nothing is captured in > DMESG. The sound card works just fine in spite of the error messages, > so I haven't pursued the matter. It would be nice if all the boot > scripts had a debugging option that would append what goes to the > console to a file.
# echo '/bin/dmesg -s 65536 > /var/log/dmesg' >> /etc/conf.d/local.start -- D. Wollmann gpg 58A7 2C9A FCBC 8B4A 6F76 1BF1 9BE0 FB93 34C8 8A21
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