Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo > install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole > thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the > depth of what's captured by dmesg so that I can get all the way back > to the beginning? Well here is what I use in root's .bashrc file to fix this sort of issue: alias dmesg='dmesg -s 262144 | less' That way dmesg is extended.... dmesg -s 262144 is what you are looking for, I think, or larger.... hth, James