Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/01/12 02:22, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can you disrupt something if it is out of the ordinary while the system > boots up? Yes. SysRq[*1] > If not, you may as well wait until after login to find out > what happened. The only possible case I can conceive of where what you > want to do mak

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you disrupt something if it is out of the ordinary while the system boots up? If not, you may as well wait until after login to find out what happened. The only possible case I can conceive of where what you want to do makes any sense is if a change was done to the system; the system is b

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 10:38:40 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 16/01/2012, Brian wrote: > > > > Does > > > >dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > > > > get you what you want? > > > > > Sorry, no. I'm looking to view the messages at bootup time before you > logon, the ones that are too small to re

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Jacob Gaarde
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:10:01 +0100 Sthu Deus wrote: --SNIP-- > > You can shorten that to > > dmesg |less > > - no need to file redirection --SNIP-- dmesg uses a "ring-buffer" so as time passes after boot dmesg | less is useless if the objective is to see what happened at boot therefore it

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/01/12 21:35, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 16/01/12 15:57, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that >> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get >> to the logon screen please? > > Try editing grub at the boot scre

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/01/2012, Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 04:57:13 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that >> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get >> to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and br

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/01/12 15:57, Sharon Kimble wrote: > where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that > scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get > to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so > that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedor

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 04:57:13 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that > scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get > to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so > that they are readable,

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Jude. You worte: >No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages >after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less >dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also >for a You can shorten that to dmesg |less -

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after > login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log > will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a > particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show specific l