re: how can I see booting messages

[Jude DaShiell]

as root, dmesg | grep -i "hdd" | less should do it for you.  dmesg doesn't 
store everything, I've had error messages speak that later were nowhere to 
be found after running dmesg but hdd information is preserved.  If debian 
doesn't speak, I can't use it and you do need to have speech temporarily 
disabled during boot sequence or the system locks up, so using a trick 
like dmesg >dmesg.log then less dmesg.log allows me to hear what dmesg.log 
preserves.  It's like the syscap utility for dos and windows.  Just put 
the syscap line as first line of config.sys and reboot the computer and 
later have a look at syscap.log in the root directory.  If those two fail, 
a hardware solution would be a weasel card which temporarily replaces the 
monitor card and is hooked up to a printer or other computer.  Everything 
that would go across the screen can be captured during boot up.  I don't 
recommend weasel cards unless you have a spare $350.00 to spend though.


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