Felix Miata wrote:
Andreas Philipp wrote:
El Lun 28 Mar 2005 20:39, Felix Miata escribió:
I have 8.2 installed on 2 systems. This file is dated 26 Sep 2003 and 0 bytes on both. Isn't this file supposed to be a mirror of the messages that flash on screen during boot? How do I enable saving boot messages to this file? On my Mandrake systems this is apparently enabled by default.
On my 8.2 systems there is no /var/log/boot.log file at all; maybe I have wiped it from the disks long ago, I don't remember. The boot messages are in /var/log/boot.msg.
My purpose is a diagnostic exercise. SuSE 8.2 & Mandrake 10.2 are both installed on the same system. SuSE boots. Mandrake doesn't. I need to figure out why. /var/log/boot.log on Mandrake looks like this: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=2851
SuSE's /var/log/boot.msg, which has no Mandrake counterpart, bears little resemblance to Mandrake's /var/log/boot.log, and has no value for this diagnostic exercise. I need to get SuSE to generate a similar file to do me any good.
I turned out to not need the SuSE boot messages. After looking at Mandrake's logs long enough I finally realized there was no module being loaded to support the SATA portion of the ICH6. Even if SuSE had been writing corresponding logs, I don't think they wouldn't have shown a SATA module being loaded, as the disk was in a much older system when the install was done, and was running on /dev/hda, not as a SCSI device. When I first installed, I had the onboard IT8212 controller disabled, and Mandrake installed to SATA as a (!&$%@!*) SCSI device. After successful installation, my next goal was to get Mandrake to boot the device, sans its PATA to SATA converter, from the IT8212 controller as /dev/hda. Ultimately I got this to work after shifting the device from ICH6 SATA to ICH6 PATA, then building a new initrd with the it821x module built in, and then moving it to the IT8212. While I was figuring it all out, I did two kernel upgrades. The kernel upgrades were not done on the SATA controller, so the new kernel initrds were leaving out the sata module. Once I realized this, it booted fine from the original kernel and initrd. -- "In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/