Ken Schneider 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.
boot.msg is for what happens during the boot process only, /var/log/messages is for log file for what takes place while the system is running ( after the boot process ).
See my Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:09:58 -0500 thread response to this issue. What I'm up against is a failure of the boot device to be properly used. SuSE behaves as expected. Mandrake is giving "no init found" kernel panics. I'm trying to find out why. SuSE will only boot when the BIOS is set to compatible mode, but finds the SATA boot device on /dev/hda18. When Mandrake 10.2 was installed on the same SATA device (/dev/hda7), it treated it as /dev/sda7. I've done so much messing around with it I can't remember precisely which device(s) were attached during installation, which is what is responsible for the kernel panics. I'm trying to get back to that point without reinstalling, so I boot SuSE to make configuration adjustments, then try to boot Mandrake. Mandrake for some reason is only finding the CDROM on the PATA controller, calling it /dev/hda, and apparently ignoring the SATA attached device, even though that's where the boot loader found its kernel and initrd. This is the motherboard: http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?MenuID=92&LanID=0&DetailID=298&DetailName=Specification http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-185-049&depa=1 -- "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/