On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:40:19AM -0400, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote:
> It seems that certain messages are not recorded by dmesg: such as isapnp
> messages. (I've never been able to see the board ID and "activated OK" message
> in dmesg -- only on the console.) Anybody can explain why?? I'd like to have
> dmesg record *every* bootup message, so that I don't have to avoid switching
> VC's right after bootup in order not to erase important messages that may not
> appear in dmesg.
dmesg only records output produced by the kernel. Since isapnp is a
userland program it gets ignored. Failing other solutions (make your
console a paper tty? :-) ), you could modify the init scripts to send
output wherever you like.
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