Re: Capturing all bootup messages

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Ogya Chief wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> When my machine is booting up, I see some fatal error messages 
> scrolling past very fast. Running dmesg does not show those messages, 
> neither does /var/log/messages.
>
> My question now is this: how can I record all those messages into a 
> log file or, how can I pause the system to read those message? 
> Pressing control-C or shift-break does not pause the system.
We really need some standard way of capturing those messages. I think 
I've heard of some switch you can add or line you can uncomment in 
/etc/init.d/bootlog, but I'm not sure.

One way that should work is to deactivate any auto-startup of X (kdm, 
etc) and then the next boot will stop at a console login. From there you 
can Shift-PgUp to scroll through the messages. (This ability gets lost 
if the system switches to a graphical display.)

--
Kent