Lawrence Hanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writess:
> We are still confused on where the messages go at IPL time. Several
> replies pointed to dmesg, and boot.msg none of these had the messages
> from our swap issue. Maybe because root is still mounted as readonly
> and syslogd cannot write to the /var/log directory and the
> messages get
> lost (just a therory). If anyone has any other theories please reply.
If you can't write to /var/log, that's the problem. The
/etc/rc.d/boot script (which drives the boot process) creates
/var/log/boot.msg using either the kernel log daemon ("klogd")
or the "dmesg" command. So if the filesystem is read/write,
you should have that file, and it will have the last <n> messages
from the boot process for some decently-large value of <n>.
Failing that, you can always do what the boot script does, by hand.
"dmesg" will display the current kernel log buffer. You can control
how much data dmesg will grab with the "-s" option - /etc/rc.d/boot
does "dmesg -s16834", to grab 16KB of messages.
Ross Patterson
Computer Associates
