e richards wrote:
Could we not send all the text on screen with a command like ? >> all_screen_text.txt
Now I am happy to test this out, but what is the '?' command, and what is the "Autoexec.bat" file equivalent in Linux, to insert the line.
At the time of initial boot there is no disk mounted, so there is no convenient place to dump the output. There is another way to record the boot messages: the serial port.
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
Landy Roman wrote:
I have a question. Is there a way to temporarily stop the boot up process so that you can read/study the messages? I've looked at dmesg, but not all of the messages are in there. like the error messages don't show up. Weird! or, where are the error messages written? did u chk /var/log/boot.msg
I believe dmesg simply gives the contents of /var/log/boot.msg, which records only those actions taken by the kernel itself during bootup. The question no one seems to have a good answer for is how to see the messages resulting from the scripts in /sbin/init.d, e.g., the ones that mount the filesystems. Shift-PgUp shows some of them, but not always all of them.
If you have two computers and available serial ports, just purchase a serial cable, those with 9 and 25 pins (female) are the most convenient. The steps I follow are: 1. Hook up the computers 2. Start an X terminal, eg. 'xterm -sb -sl 1000', and run minicom in it. Bring out the configuration panel, Alt-Z -> O -> Serial port setup -> E, Tell it to use the serial port you connected the cable to (/dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, etc.) Set up the serial port to 9600, no parity 8 bit data, 1 stop bit. 3. Boot linux on the machine you want to monitor with: LILO: linux console=ttyS0,9600n8 The above means that all console messages go to the first serial port. The default settings are 9600 bauds, 8 bits, no parity, so the above is a little redundant, but you can use it to up the speed. 4. The status line of minicom should indicate if you are offline or online. If it works, you should see all the boot messages and you can save them by copying and pasting. -- Rafael -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq