Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:37:44AM +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > PS: I never understood why is bootlogd turned of by default. In case > some big guru is reading this, I would be grateful for a pointer to an > explanation. :) Gurus become gurus by reading. :) See the sysvinit changelog. sysvi

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-25 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does dmesg holds the complete log of the bootup messages? If not, is > there any way for me to retrieve and view the complete log of the > bootup messages? There is daemon called bootlogd which creates a bootlog-file named /var/log/boot. The bootlogd is part of the pac

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-24 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, I remember reading some articles in the LinuxGazette vol0-8 about this. On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:18:25PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: Hello Hugo, That's interesting; I'll have to remember to add YMMV in future. I think the Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q bit might be in Paul Sheer's RUTE User's Tutorial and Exposition, but I'm not sure. I first saw it in a post on this list, from, I think, Colin Watson. The shift-Pgup

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:09:41AM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to yes in /etc/default/bootlogd ...you'll need version 2.85-9 of sysvinit / initscripts. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp00

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are > >> scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning > >> about some module

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). To

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling > off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some > modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch > the rest). To halt the scroll

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to yes in /etc/default/bootlogd -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread GodMode
type in as root $ demsg | more GM - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where can I find logs for the various init level? They should be in /var/log. For example, in my /etc/rc2.d, I have the script "S99kdm", which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/kdm. So I look in /var/log, and sure enough there's a "kdm.log" file. However, not a

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread users
Do you know where can I find logs for the various init level? Thanks :) > Kent Westwrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling > off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some > modules not found. One of them is micro

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i microcode, it is not fou

Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread users
Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i microcode, it is not found. Does dmesg holds the