Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, setting BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to Yes did the trick!
> The reason that this is off by default is that it makes some
> systems unbootable, esp non-i386 machines with serial consoles.
with non-i386 you probably refer to AMD etc.? This laptop is an i686
and I had no problem booting.
Thanks Miquel, Maurits, Andreas and René!
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# Mertens Bram "M8ram" <bram-mertens@linux.be> Linux User #349737 #
# SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) kernel 2.4.20-4GB i686 512MB RAM #
# 9:39pm up 13 days 12:22, 10 users, load average: 0.23, 0.11, 0.04 #
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