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Re: How to capture start up messages?



"Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> writes:

> I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody
> system boots. 
> 
> dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel,
> and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read.
> 
> How can I do this?
> 


Immediately after your system boots, and before logging in, hit
shift+pgup and you will be able to scroll back through the boot
messages. I don't know if there's any way to save them to a file
though... short of using VMWare or something like that.

HTH



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