On Wednesday 04 January 2012 23:46:57 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/01/04 23:25 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
Felix I got your reply about boot.msg on the list but then somehow lost it so I am replying this way.
And I'm going back to the list where this belongs. Maybe you need a separate folder and filter for my emails.
You point out that it reaches level 5 then reverts to level 3 and then back to 5. Don;t forget that I have to do that manually from the command line to get to a GUI. Or maybe that is not it??
AFAIK, everything written to that file should be done by the time you see a greeter or login prompt. Same thing happens here though, so I'll bet this is a bug (designed to confound the already confounded).
Well, that would not surprise me. Seems like the quality of opensuse has greatly declined over the past few years. Check this out though. To repeat the condition though, as the OS is booting and the text is flying by, the last two lines before the login prompt are: Level 5 has been reached, and some services (level 5) have bee skipped. (like kdm maybe ?) Anyway. I log in as root, and mind you now this is supposed to be level 5. After ;ogin I fire up MC and navigate to /var/log. I scroll down and find boot.msg. It has a pound sign in front of it like it is commented out. I try to open it with F3 to view it and MC gives me a big red message that there is no such file or directory, (not written yet?) SSo I close MC and do the init 3 init 5 thing to get the login screen. After the GUI comes up I go to /var/log and open boot.msg. I have attached what I believe is the pertinent info from it below. It sjowss the change from level 5 to 3 and basck to 5 again. ( result of my manual input ?)
If I can see the boot.msg from the CL I don't know how to copy it into an email.
Anything large you should attach instead of copy and paste in. Surely KMail has a way to do that. With smaller files if you cat the file in Konsole you can select what you want copied with the mouse and then use the menus to copy & paste.
Yes, I know that and I should have made that an attachment. Sorry. You can;t have aby idea how hard this is for me with all of this trying to read and tyoe. And no, I think you misuderstood. I was talking about from the CLI in what is a level 3 environment. I didn't try but MC could probably do it.
Re: grub. I can't get it at bootup because I can't see it fast enough to know the command.
All you need to see initially is that it's there, then strike any cursor key to halt the timer. Then you have unlimited time to work with it.
Yes, that is the problem. I can't figure out how to see what is in there, even after reviewung grub man, info, and help, Guess I am just clueless.
After the sys is booted I can call it up in a console but I don't know how to get where I need to be& --help isn't much helpfor me.
Again, cluelss
I don't know how to fake using the Grub GFX menu in a Konsole, you you have me lost here.
Me too I guess. Don'tknow what you;re telling me. Bob S