On 21/12/18 5:37 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-12-20, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't think it would help. It's the speed that is the problem. It was >> almost impossible to read anything with my old CPU. It's nothing but a >> blur with this new one. Mostly, I saw red letters and what looked like >> the word "error". >> >> If it will log the error, that is best because I can copy and paste it >> into a search engine and find out what it means and how to fix it, if I >> don't figure it out on my own. May help someone else reading this tho. ;-) > With most more modern motherboards this is probably not an option, but > when I'm troubleshooting that sort of thing, I tell the kernel to use > a serial console. I connect something to the serial port that logs the > data to a file (usually a second Linux machine running C-Kermit, but > there are untold other options), and Bob's your uncle. > > With GRUB, you can usually hit <some character> to stop autoboot, then > <some other character> to edit the default boot options to add the > "console=" incantation. > > If you really want to geek out, you can configure GRUB to use the > serial console also (but that's not really needed for your situation). > > So far, I've been able to avoid buying a motherboard without at least > one plain-old-UART on it. These days you usually have to provide your > own ribbon-cable-DB9 bracket, but it's still a lifesaver for obscure > kernel problems. > > Another option is 'netconsole': > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netconsole > > It doesn't kick in as early as a serial-console does, but it it might > be early enough if the NIC driver and netconsole drivers are compiled > into the kernel as opposed to being a loadable module. > Tried this? /etc/rc.conf
# rc_logger launches a logging daemon to log the entire rc process to # /var/log/rc.log # NOTE: Linux systems require the devfs service to be started before # logging can take place and as such cannot log the sysinit runlevel. rc_logger="YES" # Through rc_log_path you can specify a custom log file. # The default value is: /var/log/rc.log rc_log_path="/var/log/rc.log" BillK
