Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Jude. You worte: No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a You can shorten that to dmesg |less - no

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 04:57:13 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so that they are readable,

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/01/12 15:57, Sharon Kimble wrote: where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/01/2012, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 04:57:13 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? i want to make them

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/01/12 21:35, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/01/12 15:57, Sharon Kimble wrote: where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? snipped Try editing grub at the boot

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Jacob Gaarde
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:10:01 +0100 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: --SNIP-- You can shorten that to dmesg |less - no need to file redirection --SNIP-- dmesg uses a ring-buffer so as time passes after boot dmesg | less is useless if the objective is to see what happened at boot

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 10:38:40 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 16/01/2012, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Does dpkg-reconfigure console-setup get you what you want? Sorry, no. I'm looking to view the messages at bootup time before you logon, the ones that are too small to

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you disrupt something if it is out of the ordinary while the system boots up? If not, you may as well wait until after login to find out what happened. The only possible case I can conceive of where what you want to do makes any sense is if a change was done to the system; the system is

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/01/12 02:22, Jude DaShiell wrote: Can you disrupt something if it is out of the ordinary while the system boots up? Yes. SysRq[*1] If not, you may as well wait until after login to find out what happened. The only possible case I can conceive of where what you want to do makes

changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during bootup and before

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in search_string will show specific

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a particular issue of