Re: startup info

1998-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for > > the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write > > it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost every

Re: startup info

1998-07-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The > > standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the > > --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a minget

Re: startup info

1998-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The > standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the > --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch). I > was referring to

Re: startup info

1998-07-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard wrote: > > This works for redhat: > Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line. > > 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear > > After bootup the screen is not cleared for login, you can then > use shift pageup to see all the bootup text. A trick I found > on

RE: startup info

1998-07-25 Thread Frock
Yes, but this is not necessary on debian, cuz by default you can scroll back all they way up to about 20-25 lines before lilo/whatever bootloader/kernel starts filling the screen. /Frock > This works for redhat: > Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line. > > 1:12345:resp

Re: startup info

1998-07-25 Thread Richard
This works for redhat: Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line. 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear After bootup the screen is not cleared for login, you can then use shift pageup to see all the bootup text. A trick I found on the RH list. (not tested it on deb

Re: startup info

1998-07-25 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Rati wrote: > > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. > > This comes up occasionally, and the answer is that, unfortunately, not all of what is printed during boot-up is saved in logs. -- Ed

Re: startup info

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: > Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg > doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. see the files on /var/log /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \

startup info

1998-07-24 Thread Robert Rati
Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks. |-| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1997-98 | |