Re: startup info

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >       True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian.  The
> > standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway.  I'm not sure that the
> > --noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch).  I
> > was referring to the fact that not everything that is printed during
> > boot-up is stored in a log file anywhere.  This was an issue that came
> > up a couple of months ago in this list.  There is currently no way to
> > 'fix' this problem (would require major, non-trivial kernel hack - and
> > maybe just isn't possible).
> 
> I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for
> the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write
> it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything.
> 
> Hamish


	The conversation on this list earlier seemed to suggest that the
earliest bootup messages from the kernel couldn't be captured in such a
way because the underlying system routines to do so weren't yet in
existence.  So, I took the gist to be that the earlier messages couldn't
be saved.


-- 
Ed


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