Re: boot.log contains only a fraction of the messages

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:39:36 +0200, Gerard H. Pille wrote:
>
>    
> > After a boot, my boot.log is less than 4k in size, and contains only a
> > small percentage of the boot messages.
> >
> > Is there any way to increase this so that I can review all messages that
> > appeared on the console?
> >      
> Kind of...
>
> /etc/default/bootlogd
>
> BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes
>
> I think the other messages fall into "/var/log/messages"
>    
Not quite.  This only effects messages generated after the kernel has 
booted.  Earlier messages, generated by the BIOS and early boot stages 
are not captured - unless you have a terminal on the console port that 
can capture them.

Miles Fidelman

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