Richard Owlett wrote: > My explicit question is: > Does an annotated list of boot process related log files and > their locations exist?
/var/log/installer ? > I did a reasonably typical install from DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 . > It is at least partly functional - I can log in as root. > The only error message during boot was that it could not find a device > with a specific UUID. It didn't stick around long enough to manually > copy the string. > > What is odd is that the last 5 characters match the UUID of the > partition it is booting from. > I need to know: > 1. the complete UUID string > 2. what was it looking for at the time > > I know that many log files are under /var/log/ . yes, and it helps to know what they all are... > I used an operable system to examine the files on the failed partition > and could not find a useful readable file. One file had an interesting > name, but was apparently a binary file. is this system supposed to be running systemd? if so, create a /var/log/journal directory to get persistent logs from systemd. then you can use journalctl to look at them. songbird
