Pausing the scroll (was Re: Small issues, but still annoying)

[Geoff Thurman <geoffthur@ntlworld.com>]

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the
> word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I
> am not sure what the FATAL error message is as it goes out of my screen
> way too fast.

If you ever want to halt the scroll, just hold down Ctrl and hit S. If
you miss it, and it is already off the screen, then try Ctrl and PageUp
(or is it Shift and PageUp? - and IIRC for some reason this part doesn't
always work). When you want it to start the scroll again use Ctrl and Q. 

Cheers,

Geoff