On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the > >machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I > >can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. > > Suse uses bootlogd for that. If you're running testing/unstable > you can edit /etc/default/bootlogd and enable bootlogd. The > output will be in /var/log/boot.
Thanks, setting BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to Yes did the trick! > The reason that this is off by default is that it makes some > systems unbootable, esp non-i386 machines with serial consoles. with non-i386 you probably refer to AMD etc.? This laptop is an i686 and I had no problem booting. Thanks Miquel, Maurits, Andreas and René! -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) kernel 2.4.20-4GB i686 512MB RAM # # 9:39pm up 13 days 12:22, 10 users, load average: 0.23, 0.11, 0.04 # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]