Re: screen snapshot
Jason Gunthorpe writes:
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> On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 tko@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
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> > This question has probably been asked before ... anyhow;
> >
> > How does one get a snapshot/logfile of the bootup process? I know about dmesg
> > but the part which interest me is the processing which occurs _after_ dmesg
> > stops. I've seen various debug messages, but they scroll off the screen before
> > the login prompt comes up. I'd like to investigate and fix them if I could
> > find out what they are. 8-)
>
> Sometimes interesting errors and warnings will end up in /var/log/*. What
> I did though is add 'vga=6' to /etc/lilo.conf to boot into 80x50 line
> mode, then nothing scrolls off in the first place ;>
Hurray! the 'vga=6' did the trick! Thanks You, Thank You!
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