On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote: > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote: > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first > > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was > > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg. It doesn't do this on the new > > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting > > > invoked this behaviour. Help?? > > > > /etc/conf.d/rc > > Thanks for the reminder, walt. I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there > and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, > but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg. If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and openrc. In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and you should not use app-admin/showconsole.
Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments. -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org
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