Logging Init output?

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@wanadoo.nl>]

Folks,

I'll provide a little background first: this weekend, the loopback
interface on my laptop stopped working. I checked all config files, and
they are ok, I can also bring up the loopback manually with 'ifconfig lo
127.0.0.1 up' after which it functions normally. I have seen however an
error message flashing by during boot, but it passes too fast for me to
see what it says.
Thus my question: is it somehow possible to log the output of the init
scripts somehow, so that I can debug this problem (the error message only
started appearing after I lost loopback, so I'm guessing they are
related).

Mart