Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: boot messages too fast to read. Date: Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 06:14:02PM +1000 In reply to:Alexander Jankowsky Quoting Alexander Jankowsky([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > too quickly to read when the computer

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hwei Sheng TEOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems that certain messages are not recorded by dmesg: such as isapnp >messages. (I've never been able to see the board ID and "activated OK" message >in dmesg -- only on the console.) Anybody can explain why?? Yes. Th

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:40:19AM -0400, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: > It seems that certain messages are not recorded by dmesg: such as isapnp > messages. (I've never been able to see the board ID and "activated OK" message > in dmesg -- only on the console.) Anybody can explain why?? I'd like to hav

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On Mon 08/23/99 11:31PM, David Teague wrote: > > > After boot, dmesg will give a good bit of the boot messages, but > > sometimes it fails to give parts of the boot message that I want :( > > I have this problem, and it drives me crazy. Sometimes I wan

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Mon 08/23/99 11:31PM, David Teague wrote: > After boot, dmesg will give a good bit of the boot messages, but > sometimes it fails to give parts of the boot message that I want :( I have this problem, and it drives me crazy. Sometimes I want to cut and paste the info into my pleas for help, but

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-24 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > You shouldn't need to do anything special to enable this, but if > you switch virtual consoles the buffer that Shift-PGUP/PGDN > scrolls through is reset. Pat Don't switch consoles. That does indeed reset the scrollback buffer. Wait until the lo

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-23 Thread Patrick Ouellette
You shouldn't need to do anything special to enable this, but if you switch virtual consoles the buffer that Shift-PGUP/PGDN scrolls through is reset. Pat

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread jfoltz
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 01:16:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thursday, August 19, 1999, 1:14:02 AM, Alexander wrote: > > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > > too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. > > dmesg from the command prompt. > > Shi

Re: [boot messages too fast to read.]

1999-08-19 Thread Henning Olsen
Alexander Jankowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past >too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. > > Use Shift + pgup/pgdown before you logon to see the messages. Henning Olsen ___

RE: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Bernd Stegelmann
Alexander Jankowsky wrote on Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:14 AM: -- snip -- > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. -- snip -- Try SHIFT a

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, August 19, 1999, 1:14:02 AM, Alexander wrote: > How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past > too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. dmesg from the command prompt. Shift-PGUP/PGDN for console scrolling. -- Steve C. Lamb |