Re: Boot process related logs. What? Where?
On Mon 04 Jun 2018 at 04:21:20 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> My explicit question is:
> Does an annotated list of boot process related log files and
> their locations exist?
Not AFAICT. But it's never to late to start writing a wiki.
> I did a reasonably typical install from DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 .
"reasonably typical". Not a lot of help.
> It is at least partly functional - I can log in as root.
> The only error message during boot was that it could not find a
> device with a specific UUID. It didn't stick around long enough to
> manually copy the string.
>
> What is odd is that the last 5 characters match the UUID of the
> partition it is booting from.
> I need to know:
> 1. the complete UUID string
> 2. what was it looking for at the time
/var/log/kern.log and /var/log/messages will both normally
contain the kernel comand line that actually booted the system.
You could then reconcile that with the contents of /etc/fstab
and the /boot/grub/grub.cfg you think was used. (I am aware
that you typically mangle the installation of grub.)
ls -l /dev/disk/*uuid
will give you a list of potential UUIDs that the system might
be looking for. The probability is quite high that they are
all unique in as few as the last five characters.
> I know that many log files are under /var/log/ .
> I used an operable system to examine the files on the failed
> partition and could not find a useful readable file. One file had an
> interesting name, but was apparently a binary file.
Yes, it would probably be an interesting name for the rest of us to
know, but I realise that it would not be typical for you to reveal it.
Cheers,
David.
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