Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread Ogya Chief
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Capturing all bootup messages Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:54:31 +0200 On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a > >log file or, how can

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread Ogya Chief
We really need some standard way of capturing those messages. I think I've heard of some switch you can add or line you can uncomment in /etc/init.d/bootlog, but I'm not sure. One way that should work is to deactivate any auto-startup of X (kdm, etc) and then the next boot will stop at a cons

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread spambox
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:40:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a > >log file or, how can I pause the system to read those message? > >Pressing control-C or shift-break does not pause the system. > > > We really need some standard wa

Re: Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-03 Thread Kent West
Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, neither does /var/log/messages. My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the sys

Capturing all bootup messages

2004-08-02 Thread Ogya Chief
Hi All, When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, neither does /var/log/messages. My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a log file or, how can I pause the system to read those