On 5/29/07, Theodore Heise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > Do you use that on 133 Mhz systems? Try it on a 3Ghz PC :) It's going way too fast. Even on my 1Ghz LFS server these message all appeear in maybe half a second. On 3Ghz it's maybe 100 microseconds or such.
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