On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:10 -0400, Dakota wrote: > On 8/4/2010 8:19 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt > > show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find > > what they are. > > > > BillK > > > > > > > > > /var/log/messages doesn't contain anything relevant? I thought that's > where stuff like that got logged. > Also, have you checked /var/log/kern.log? >
messages has nothing but messages printed by modules after they successfully loaded - no failures. kern.log doesnt exist - there is a /var/log/kernel directory, but stuff in there is dated 2005 (!) Probably I need to turn on debug in the kernel somewhere - but what? BillK
