Re: changing bootup parameters
On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after
> login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log
> will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a
> particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show
> specific lines of dmesg.log pertinent to your search. I'm coming at
> this from a blindness perspective and use of speakup on my linux box and
> that for me makes life far easier over here.
I'm coming at this from an ex-centos user and i like to see the
messages as they happen before logon, so that I can spot anything out
of the ordinary. Thats why I want them readable, and reading the log
after logon is not acceptable.
Thanks
Sharon.
>
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that
>> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get
>> to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so
>> that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during
>> bootup and before the logon screen, and so far there is a parameter in
>> grub which controls this, but what is it and how do i access it
>> please?
>>
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