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.

Tijnema
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