Re: Viewing bootup message
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, tsnake@rhombus.net wrote:
> How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into
> linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it
> rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I
> can re-direct it to a file for perusal?
dmesg will show you the kernel stuff, eg "dmesg | less". Most of
it is in the logs in /var/log too. There's no way (that I know of)
to see all the non-kernel stuff.
Note that scroll lock will pause the display.
Hamish
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