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Re: Kernel boot messages



on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:49:55AM -0600, Casey Webster (casey@trifocus.net) wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4.0 with no apparent problems... I
> > did notice on bootup some messages that scroll by far too quickly to
> > read that I wanted to take another look at. I think they just have
> > something to do with my CD-ROM drives (possibly because there's no
> > discs in them).
> > 
> > How can I log *all* of the kernel's boot messages ?? "dmesg" doesn't
> > show everything.

> dmesg is just the kernel bootstrap messages and will catch all of that,
> once init is spawned, the kernel is done, and you should check syslog for
> further messages.

Some devices also produce (their own?) output -- notably SCSI devices as
they're initialized or drivers are loaded.  This output is also excluded
from default dmesg buffers.

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