Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Thursday, March 05, 2015 3:16:55 AM Dale wrote: Yea, it won't catch everything. This is sort of designed for that point where one log stops and the other hasn't started yet. This is usually where dmesg stops and syslog and friends hasn't yet started. Of course, if /var isn't mounted,

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 03:08:46 -0500, German wrote: Thanks Dale, done it. Unfortunately it doesn't log everything. For instance Warning: /lib64/rc/cache is not writable wasn't written to /var/log/rc.log Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 03:08:46 -0500, German wrote: Thanks Dale, done it. Unfortunately it doesn't log everything. For instance Warning: /lib64/rc/cache is not writable wasn't written to /var/log/rc.log Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not going to be written to

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread German
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:17:34 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: German wrote: I have a SSD in my laptop and the system boots really fast so I can't see the details of the warnings it displays. Are there any way to scroll the screen or see some system boot's logs? Thanks You

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:38:07 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: I personally use dracut which has quite a few bells and whistles. If you're using systemd as has already been pointed out it runs the journal during early boot and merges it into the system journal when it pivots. I believe that if

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:38:07 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: I personally use dracut which has quite a few bells and whistles. If you're using systemd as has already been pointed out it runs the journal during early boot and

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:16:55 -0600, Dale wrote: Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not going to be written to /var. Yea, it won't catch everything. This is sort of designed for that point where one log stops and the other hasn't started yet. This is usually

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I just recall reading somewhere, systemd or not, that that is how it is supposed to work. After all, it can't run fsck and such while mounted rw from my understanding. Keep in mind that an initramfs is nothing more than an

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 03:08:46 -0500, German wrote: Thanks Dale, done it. Unfortunately it doesn't log everything. For instance Warning: /lib64/rc/cache is not writable wasn't written to /var/log/rc.log Of course it wasn't.

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 03:08:46 -0500, German wrote: Thanks Dale, done it. Unfortunately it doesn't log everything. For instance Warning: /lib64/rc/cache is not writable wasn't written to /var/log/rc.log Of

[gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-04 Thread German
I have a SSD in my laptop and the system boots really fast so I can't see the details of the warnings it displays. Are there any way to scroll the screen or see some system boot's logs? Thanks -- German gentger...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:58 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: I have a SSD in my laptop and the system boots really fast so I can't see the details of the warnings it displays. Are there any way to scroll the screen or see some system boot's logs? Try; dmesg | less And you may also

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-04 Thread Dale
German wrote: I have a SSD in my laptop and the system boots really fast so I can't see the details of the warnings it displays. Are there any way to scroll the screen or see some system boot's logs? Thanks You may want to read this post and try this method too. I did this ages ago and on