how to read the result of inittab

[Mickael Vera <Mickael.Vera@crm.mot.com>]

Hi,

When I boot linux I can read on screen the
messages of the kernel and then the messages
produced by inittab

When i am logged I can read the kernel messages 
with dmesg but how can i read the messages
that follow. If go on the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
I can see the last lines but not the first ones
I didn't find any log file.

I tried to modify inittab with a redirection
of the rc scripts output but I couldn't boot anymore
as the root partition was mounted read only. I could
have a shell but the root partition was mounted read-only.
The only solution I found was to boot on another 
linux (on an extractible hard disk form another
computer) with loadlin from windows and then mount 
my root linux partition and edit inittab. 

The first time Windows saved me ;-)

Was there an easier solution ?

Thanks,

-- 
Vera Mickael Stagiaire