On 2014-07-25, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly > past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by > agetty. Nobody particularily complains about this behaviour. Unless > you have an excellent visual memory you are in the dark as regards what > happened. > Isn't "dmesg" intended to unbewilder the bewildered?