Not sure what you mean by "linear messages" or "static access", so I
apologize if I'm answering the wrong question. And I didn't see this
question previously, or I'd have answered before.
There are two basic ways to see boottime messages:
early ones will be in the "dmesg" queue. Actually a ring buffer,
this has limited capacity, but if you run "dmesg" right
after a fresh boot, it will display a lot of the boottime
messages. To save them, run "dmesg >some_file_name".
later ones will have been caught by syslogd and be somewhere in
your logs. Where is system specific, and distributions
and versions vary in their defaults. Look around in
/var/log, though.
At 10:52 AM 1/28/00 -0500, mrcoady wrote:
>Someone asked a while back whether it was possible to track down all those
>linear messages that flash across the screen during bootup.
>
>Since no one answered this question, I am assuming that there is no static
>access to what appears while Linux is booting up.
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