Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió:
> > and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to
> > capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log
> > files - guess I have to connect my laptop to the serial port and
> > capture the console traffic
>
> If all you need is watch at the messages at boot-time, then you could
> press the "Scroll Lock" key, which will "pause" the boot process and
> give you some time to read, then you can scroll with Shift+PageUp or
> Shift+PageDown. When you're done you press "Scroll Lock" again and the
> process goes on.
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Excellent! ;-)
I knew about the Shift+PageUp/Down, but had forgotten about the Scroll lock
key...
Kind Regards
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