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This is rather nice
Authored by: SeanAhern on Feb 12, '02 11:23:22AM

I've been using boot_args=-v for a while to see the startup messages.

Does anyone know if those are logged to a file anywhere? There are some that I'd like to go back and examine in detail, but they scroll by too quickly.



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This is rather nice
Authored by: Auricchio on Feb 12, '02 11:51:09AM

No, messages this early don't make it to a file. The log doesn't actually get started till at least a few screens go by. There's an option that can be turned on while building the kernel (I forget where) to let this stuff fly out the serial port. Then again, with serial ports going away, I don't know if it's useful any more.



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Bummer
Authored by: SeanAhern on Feb 12, '02 03:21:58PM

I had thought this was probably the case, but had been hoping that once the drives were fsck'ed and mounted, that the rest would be put in a log.

Ah well.



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Bummer
Authored by: Auricchio on Feb 12, '02 10:05:35PM
Messages go into /var/log/system.log right after you see the message about it starting syslog.

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This is rather nice
Authored by: Gwyrrdin on Feb 12, '02 03:38:36PM

type in "dmesg" at the prompt, and you see some info....

look in system.log for more....

cheers Gwyrrdin



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