Re: Linux Boot-up Screens

Dances With Crows wrote: 
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.

/var/log/dmesg catches the stuff the kernel outputs during the boot process. Messages pertaining to the starting (or failure) of daemons is often logged (via bootlogd) to /var/log/boot (or similar). Without something like bootlogd, though, they won't be logged anyplace.

(Or are you saying that Gentoo redirects the daemons' messages to /var/log/dmesg too?)

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