Hi Paul, > On Mar 19, 2023, at 11:29 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back. > If only the boot process would also copy everything in a boot.log file! >
At present, that is not really practical. Actually for a lot of the boot processes on the LiveCD, not currently even possible. When the LiveCD boots, the system is an unknown state. During the startup, it needs to figure out a lot of different things. There is no known location it could write any such messages that could be later viewed. During the early stages of the boot process, it is simply not reliably possible at present. As things progress and it works out some stuff, it “could” write such a log to the a hard drive if present. But being a LiveCD, that would be a very bad idea and counter to user expectations. It should not modify the contents of any drive unless explicitly told to do so. Therefore, it tries to bring up a RAM drive for the purpose of having temporary storage for things like I/O redirection and extracting software packages. By this point, a “boot.Log” would be of little use, would complicate the process and possibly eat up precious RAM disk space. All that being said, it would be possible to create fairly simple device driver that could trap and log all displayed text to XMS memory (when present). But, I’m very busy on other things for the moment. Maybe after I finish the next stage of my current project, I’ll whip one up. Jerome > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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