Jordan Evatt wrote:
There's a bunch of stuff that goes to the serial port well before any logging is activated - the only way to capture it is to either hit scroll lock on your terminal or use a terminal emulator on a laptop to capture all the traffic. That drove me crazy when I was setting up a couple of new servers a month or so back.* Fred J. (phddas@yahoo.com) wrote:I editet /etc/default/bootlogd so that "BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes". and booted with my newly compiled 2.6.16, I then went to read the messages /var/log/boot, but it says the file is not readable. how can I get those lines scrolling up the screen when bootup.I believe that file is owned by root:adm, chmod 640, so you'll have to either su to root to view the file or be a member of the adm group to view the file.
Miles