Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-07 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:21:09AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: >I don't know if anyone has suggested this yet, but: >$ dmesg | $PAGER >works fine for viewing boot messages. You lose all the module loading >and init messages, but that's usually logged to syslog or kern.log >anyway, so you can look

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-07 Thread Geordie Birch
said Dan Jacobson (on 2003-01-07), > > I will try chmod -x /etc/init.d/xdm > which will only stop X, not like init 1, which stops too much... > no, indeed it turns out I don't know how to stop X from staring on > debian. I can't figure it out. If I say 'single' at the boot prompt > that will

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
> Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are > we too early in the startup? < Try using dmesg (or less /var/log/dmesg) i wanted to see the ones that dont go in there > when booting the machine, hook up the console to another system > if you only have 1 system, I'd sugg

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 00:21, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > I don't know if anyone has suggested this yet, but: > $ dmesg | $PAGER > works fine for viewing boot messages. You lose all the module loading > and init messages, but that's usually logged to

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: I don't know if anyone has suggested this yet, but: $ dmesg | $PAGER works fine for viewing boot messages. You lose all the module loading and init messages, but that's usually logged to syslog or kern.log anyway, so you can look into it later. Or

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 20:13, nate wrote: > Dan Jacobson said: > > > Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are we > > too early in the startup? > > turn on serial console in lilo.conf, and check to be sure your kernel > has serial console support. for 2.2.x kernels the

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:57, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > Try switching off the turbo button if yo

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-05 Thread Paul Lewis
Have you tried scroll lock? I seem to recall it worked for me when I had this type of issue On 2003.01.04 17:57 Dan Jacobson wrote: I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. Yeah, every bug report you file must be dealt with as an emergency even if it really requires a redesig

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 18:57]: >I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see >some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. Scroll back. Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDown Thorsten -- It is exactly because markets are amoral that we canno

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread nate
Dan Jacobson said: > Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are we > too early in the startup? turn on serial console in lilo.conf, and check to be sure your kernel has serial console support. for 2.2.x kernels the options would be: CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOL

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > > You will answer "oh, mtab

Re: console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
Shift-PgUp? On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see > some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. > E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* > Nothing. > > You will ans

console messages flit by too fast

2003-01-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* Nothing. You will answer "oh, mtab, don't worry about that". But the general problem of messages that appear