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Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?



In article <[🔎] 1101032153.511.321.camel@linux.local>,
Bram Mertens  <bram-mertens@linux.be> wrote:
>On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the
>machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg.  On my laptop I
>can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages.

Suse uses bootlogd for that. If you're running testing/unstable
you can edit /etc/default/bootlogd and enable bootlogd. The
output will be in /var/log/boot.

The reason that this is off by default is that it makes some
systems unbootable, esp non-i386 machines with serial consoles.

Mike.



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