On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > You shouldn't need to do anything special to enable this, but if > you switch virtual consoles the buffer that Shift-PGUP/PGDN > scrolls through is reset.
Pat Don't switch consoles. That does indeed reset the scrollback buffer. Wait until the login message. Then scroll back with shift-PgUp back to the start of boot. This loses the beginnning of the boot messages if there is more to display than the scroll back (ring?) buffer can handle. In that event, stop the scrolling with Control-S in the middle and use shift-PgUp/PgDn to look at the boot messages. After boot, dmesg will give a good bit of the boot messages, but sometimes it fails to give parts of the boot message that I want :( --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)