On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:06:00AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > On 2/6/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi guys, > > > > is it possible to change (increase) the number of lines that are saved > > on console? i would like to be able to scroll through the whole boot > > process history. right now it allows me to go approximately one and half > > pages back... > > > > thanks, > > I don't have the answer to your question, but you can run "dmesg" to > view the console messages. The buffer is limited in size, so you'll > want to run it immediately after boot. I prefer to use a init.d > script, set up to run last, to run "dmesg > /var/run/dmesg.boot", so I > have a copy handy at all times. > That's the best I've found, too. Unfortunately, I've occasionally notices a few lines scolling by during boot that do not show up in dmesg output. Whatever writes them out must bypass the normal procedure for emitting messages.
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