Re: Viewing bootup message
On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
: 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?
Sure, if you've got a 15" monitor, and have never used a 132 column
monitor. However, this argumant is pointless as it doesn't fulfill the
purpose of the list - address the user's question.
At any rate, I believe the new version of stm resets the screen when it
starts, so that gpm will work as advertised (if you start gpm, then
start stm, and don't send a SIGWINCH (iirc) to gpm, it still thinks
you're in a 80x25 window. Ugly) I suppose this reset is causing your
inability to scroll back.
I'm not a master with stm, gpm, but I think there is a way to _not_ run
stm on one of your consoles. Is there? If you don't use gpm, you could
comment out the reset program in the stm config file ... or, even if you
do use gpm you could try this.
I'll try it out on my Compaq monday at work. Until then, this is mostly
conjecture.
HTH,
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