Re: Viewing bootup message
Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> writes:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I could shift/page right back to the bios messages after startup until I
> upgraded svgatextmode (currently Version: 1.8-4.) Now I cannot go back
> past whatever is on the screen when svgatextmode starts. Has anyone got a
> fix for this?
I've never seen much point in svgatextmode, personally - you can get
80x50 from LILO, isn't that enough?
--Bill.
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