All, Do any of you know of a way to capture the startup screen output (not dmesg but rather what is actually output to the screen.) and the shutdown mesg. What it is, is that the problems Ric had with his remote server go me to start looking hard at what does/doesn't happen when my boxes start up and shutdown. What I've noticed is.
No matter what journaled FS is used (not inc xfs sorry) the journal is replayed while the fs is still mounted ro ... In other words if I have a hard shutdown right after making a change when the journal is replayed to recover, it can't be written. Which to me defeats the purpose of a journal. RH, slack and SuSe don't have this problem. They wait until after the / filesystem is mounted rw to replay the journal. During shutdown. smb and nmb get shutdown seperately and twice! even though rc6 doesn't have but one k entry.. Note that the first bug is there on 8.0 8.1 8.2 and 9.0 (They tell me at work that I'm the only person they know who has a multi boot box that still only does Linux.) I'd love to be able to capture the startup and shutdown to document what I'm talking about. James
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