My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages. Fortunately, I had made copies of them. Greg Wooledge said to me >"How are you `looking at ` the file? >I would suggest using less.
>You get out of less by pressing p Greg, I was using less. What I did was:- Open a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1 `cd /var/log` then `ls` and I could see boot.log amongst the list of files then I did `sudo less boot.log` and got the list of start ups. At this point I was stuck and asked the list for help. I was such a fool because I did not look up the man page for less. I went through the process and pressed p and low and behold and was back to the `root@??? /var/log`. Thank you. Now I have to try and print a copy of the first 100 or so lines which will give me the last boot up details.
