Re: Not a speed reader.

[Pim Bliek <bliekp@pingwings.nl>]

Even easier is to read it afterwards.

Try:
'dmesg | less'
or:
'less /var/log/kern.log'

Both ways give you lots of info what happened during bootup and enables
you grep'ing for stuff as well of course :).

Pim

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:47, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:27:30PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
> > I'm experimenting on my Libranet setup, and I've got things in a bit of a 
> > mess.
> > Never mind it matches the rest of the house.
> > When I was in my Windows days, there was an obscure setting that would slow 
> > down the start up graphics to a pace that you had time to read them.
> > Is there an equivalent mechanism in Debian?
> 
> You can hit Ctrl-S as messages are scrolling up the screen to pause
> them. Hit Ctrl-Q to resume when you're ready.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>