Jason Gunthorpe writes: > > > On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow; > > > > How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about > > dmesg > > but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg > > stops. I've seen various debug messages, but they scroll off the screen > > before > > the login prompt comes up. I'd like to investigate and fix them if I could > > find out what they are. 8-) > > Sometimes interesting errors and warnings will end up in /var/log/*. What > I did though is add 'vga=6' to /etc/lilo.conf to boot into 80x50 line > mode, then nothing scrolls off in the first place ;>
Hurray! the 'vga=6' did the trick! Thanks You, Thank You! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
