Re: How to capture bootup messages?

[Paulo M C Aragão <yagpaulo-listas@yahoo.com>]

John Kelly wrote on Jun, 13:

> When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and
> stderr, scrolling by too fast to read.  They are not logged in dmesg
> or any /var/log file.
> 
> How to capture them?

This fantastic list help me on this one before.

Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd:

BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes

Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in
/var/log/boot.

Hope this helps
Paulo