Re: startup info
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 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.
The kernel saves everything until init starts (and later kernel messages)
and they can be retrieved with dmesg, and they are sent to klogd. What else
is missing?
Hamish
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