Re: Tracking boot messages

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, list.  I am trying to find a way to track boot messages.  I know about
> things like
>
>   dmesg|less
>
> and
>
>   less /var/log/syslog
>
> but they don't cover everything.  For example, /etc/init.d/console-setup
> issues a message during boot that goes something like this:
>
>   Setting up console font and keymap
>
> and this does not appear in either dmesg output or in /var/log/syslog.
> Furthermore, it appears that the font change done by console-setup
> kills my scrollback; so that Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown don't
> work.  That is, I can't scroll back prior to the font change.

Edit "/etc/default/bootlogd".