On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 05:20:42 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/7/15, Li Wei <rootof3@yahoo.com> wrote: > > boot time and shutdown time shorten a lot in jessie > > and a lot of details is hidden from user > > Could you explain it? Thanks a lot!! > > > DISCLAIMER: I just wrote all this up then realized you might not be > using GRUB. If you're not, someone else will maybe be able to pick up > and run with the alternative. > > So what I did was: I just tried a couple searches based on my > understanding that you're looking for a more "verbose" output during > bootup and shutdown. Without even visiting any websites in the > Internet search output, I picked up the word "bootlogd". One more > search later, I ended up here: > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=121735 > > A Debian site, yay. :) > > I just popped into my own (Sid unstable) /etc/default/grub and found > their referenced line, this one: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" > > If you test drive change that line to either of their value > recommendations, "" or "text", don't forget to update GRUB via the > command "update-grub". You won't see any changes reflected until you > do so. > > I also just quickly ran "apt-cache search bootlogd" for their other > recommendation. That (terminal command line search) output this > description: > > "bootlogd - daemon to log boot messages" > > Bootlogd may or may not be default installed on various systems. Just > for funnsies, running the command "dpkg -s bootlogd" reflects it's NOT > on my extremely basic (homegrown) debootstrap copy. > > Hope this helps someone somewhere.. :) Thanks! This is a much more useful answer; I had assumed that it was a limitation in the init system. I'll try to enable bootlogd now. :)
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