Re: Linux Boot-up Screens
- From: Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:37:22 -0600
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:39:14 +0100 (MET), Edward S. Baiz Jr. staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
> I was wondering. You know all the data that is displayed on the screen
> when Linux boots up? After I have logged in, what would I type to
> bring up that data so I can get a closer look at it. It scrolls so
> fast I really cannot read it. Thanks for any help.
Most of the text messages that are displayed on boot are logged to a
file in /var/log by a boot script. This varies with distro; Gentoo uses
/var/log/dmesg for this. If it's immediately after the system is
booted, "dmesg | more" will show you everything.
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