On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:15, Rod Butcher wrote: > Sluggers, can you tell me how I can step thru the messages when I boot > up.. i.e. thru Lilo and then the initial kernel startup...
- You should be able to hit scroll lock during bootup to... well... stop scrolling. - As mentioned by others, dmesg will show you the contents of the kernel's ring buffer. Just after bootup this should show you the booting messages. It can rapidly overflow with things like firewall log messages though. - Some distributions (well, the only one I know for sure is debian and its offspring) put a copy of the dmesg output in /var/log/dmesg very early on in init's boot process. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
