re: how can I see booting messages
as root, dmesg | grep -i "hdd" | less should do it for you. dmesg doesn't
store everything, I've had error messages speak that later were nowhere to
be found after running dmesg but hdd information is preserved. If debian
doesn't speak, I can't use it and you do need to have speech temporarily
disabled during boot sequence or the system locks up, so using a trick
like dmesg >dmesg.log then less dmesg.log allows me to hear what dmesg.log
preserves. It's like the syscap utility for dos and windows. Just put
the syscap line as first line of config.sys and reboot the computer and
later have a look at syscap.log in the root directory. If those two fail,
a hardware solution would be a weasel card which temporarily replaces the
monitor card and is hooked up to a printer or other computer. Everything
that would go across the screen can be captured during boot up. I don't
recommend weasel cards unless you have a spare $350.00 to spend though.
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