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Re: Pausing the scroll (was Re: Small issues, but still annoying)



On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
> > Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the
> > word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I
> > am not sure what the FATAL error message is as it goes out of my screen
> > way too fast.

'dmesg' will show you your bootup messages (when you are able to login
that is).

> If you ever want to halt the scroll, just hold down Ctrl and hit S. If
> you miss it, and it is already off the screen, then try Ctrl and PageUp
> (or is it Shift and PageUp? - and IIRC for some reason this part doesn't
> always work). When you want it to start the scroll again use Ctrl and Q. 

It's Shift-PageUp. And in case Ctrl-S doesn't work, try the ScrollLock
key.

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