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. -- Theodore (Ted) Heise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bloomington, IN, USA -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
