On Tue, 29 May 2007, Tijnema wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Alan Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Since the boot messages go by so fast, and I cannot get pause, or 
>> scroll lock to stop the screen I cannot see what happens earlier 
>> in the boot.

> This is a common problem, I don't think it's possible to pause or 
> such, but you could try to append
> vga=6
> to your boot line, this will change the font size, so that when 
> the error occurs, you can read a bigger part of the log, and 
> probably also the piece where your hard drive drives are loaded, 
> and the kernel finds your drives, and shows you which name it has 
> atm. I used this way to find out how my USB drives were called in 
> my new kernel.

A trick I've used to capture fleeting messages from the BIOS is to 
point a digital camera at the display, and snap a photograph at the 
appropriate moment.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>     Bloomington, IN, USA
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