What is the trick to scroll back up and see boot messages?

1997-02-23 Thread Stan Brown
I recall that there is a way to scroll back up and see boot messages from the console. I can't remember what it was though. Can someone refresh my memory. Also why are not all boot message logged into /var/log/messages ? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL

Re: What is the trick to scroll back up and see boot messages?

1997-02-23 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You can use the console scrollback with the Shift-PageUp/PageDown keys. The alternative is the dmesg (8) command which shows the kernel bootup and all the later messages. I guess the reason that not all the messages don't show in /var/log/messages is that they are generated by the startup

Re: What is the trick to scroll back up and see boot messages?

1997-02-23 Thread Rob Browning
Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SHIFT PGUP/PGDN works for me during boot time. Yes, except that once the login prompt has popped up, you lose your entire scrollback buffer (at least I do). So you have to use scroll lock to pause the boot process before you get to that point. Then you

Re: What is the trick to scroll back up and see boot messages?

1997-02-23 Thread Gary Lee
Try dmesg Gary Lee On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Stan Brown wrote: I recall that there is a way to scroll back up and see boot messages from the console. I can't remember what it was though. Can someone refresh my memory. Also why are not all boot message logged into

Re: What is the trick to scroll back up and see boot messages?

1997-02-23 Thread Steve Reid
Yes, except that once the login prompt has popped up, you lose your entire scrollback buffer (at least I do). You lose your scrollback buffer when you switch away from your virtual console. For example, when X starts. Under FreeBSD, I can switch to another vty, switch back, and still scroll