On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:57, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > Try switching off the turbo button if your box still has one - run the system at the old 4.77 MHz speed iirc ;)
Not all that appears in those messages is actually logged or logged the same way that it is reported on the - particularly the earliest "system testing" messages that actually happen before the logging system is turned on. These messages are generally fair and safe - if they aren't, the system can't go any further, and you get a kernel panic. Given the choice between missing messages and a kernel panic, maybe your views differ from mine, but I can live with missing "e key is okay - E is also okay. r key is okay - R is also okay..." (okay, it doesn't report that, but it reports details that if they are okay, are useless to the average user *most of the time*.) > You will answer "oh, mtab, don't worry about that". > But the general problem of messages that appear at boot but go off the > screen is not solved for me still. Am I really supposed to hit ^S^Q > like back 30 years ago? What if I am not fast enough still? > > You will answer: that is the fault of whatever package author for also > not logging his message to syslog. But that isn't helping me: what > package? the name went by too fast. > > Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are > we too early in the startup? > > Am I supposed to boot my system thru some remote terminal like the > certainly must do a Linux Labs so they can scroll back? But I only > have 1 equipment and am not into learning something fancy. > > Perhaps all the stupid questions I post about why I can't enter the > audio age could be solved if I didn't miss one of those ominous > messages that go by too fast. > Audio is started later in the process, and the only message you might see in the earlier, unlogged portion is if it sees sound support on the motherboard - the pci scan is a bit later and in a slower part of the boot messages, and usually depends on kernel code or modules being available and properly configured, which gets done by root. It also requires the users for audio to be members of the audio and cd groups to control and hear them. > I hit ALT CTRL F1 etc. but I don't suppose those `man console(4)` tty > can be scrolled backwards. > -- > http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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