My email has gone haywire and I cannot reply to two of the messages.
Fortunately, I had made copies of them.
Greg Wooledge said to me
>"How are you `looking at ` the file?
>I would suggest using less.
>You get out of less by pressing p
Greg, I was using less.
What I did was:- Open a terminal by ctrl + alt + F1
`cd /var/log` then `ls` and I could see boot.log amongst the list of files
then I did `sudo less boot.log` and got the list of start ups.
At this point I was stuck and asked the list for help.
I was such a fool because I did not look up the man page for less.
I went through the process and pressed p and low and behold and was back to the `root@??? /var/log`.
Thank you.
Now I have to try and print a copy of the first 100 or so lines which
will give me the last boot up details.