Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Carroll" <mtbc@ixod.org>
> 
> Curt <curty@free.fr> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Unfortunately not all of what is actually printed on the screen seems to
> make it into the dmesg output.
> 
You could try installing bootlogd.  I just tried it on my jessie system (running systemd) and it didn't log anything.  But I recall using it on Wheezy and I think it logged all the services starting/stopping/failing.

-Rob