Re: Bug#1396: System Hangs!

[dwarf@symnet.net (Dale Scheetz)]

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) said:
>Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>
>
>> Dale Scheetz asks:
>>    Well, absolutely nothing appears in the log after the last boot
>>    message. BTW the major things that appear on the console but not in
>>    the messages log is the output from the boot script and
>>    run-parts. What do I do to get these messages into a file
>>    somewhere?
>> 
>> si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/boot >>/var/log/boot
>> 
>> [I think that all log files in /var/log/ are automatically rotated?]
>
>I just rendered my system unbootable by trying this.
>(rummages for a disaster disk)
>
>The redirection apparently fails because the root filesystem is mounted
>readonly, and thish screws up the rest of the system startup.
>
>If this can be made to work, I was thinking that "| tail -a /var/log/boot"
>might be better than the simple redirection.

I assume this means that the other DOS partitions have not been mounted yet
(or at least are also not writable yet, as they mount on nodes of the root
filesystem) so I couldn't direct the file there either?

Dale