Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
If you are not using one of the graphic login managers, shift-pgup will scroll back thru the boot messages. If you are, boot to the non-graphical level and see above.
A side comment: the error messages that zipped by on the screen appear neither in the dmesg output nor in /var/log/messages. Is there some way I can look at them for more than a second or two?
Interesting discovery, Jeffrey. I knew about Shift-PgUp. But what I didn't know is that if you're using a graphical login manager, you can't get at them that way even though you can get at them with a text login manager. With KDM active I tried using Ctl-Alt-F1 to get to the bootup terminal, and indeed got there. But Shift-PgUp wouldn't take me back bfore the messages already visible. However, when I switched over to the textual login, Shift-PgUp showed me the messages. Of course, what they revealed is what I knew already: that the 8139too driver can't see the network card under the 2.4.2 kernel, at least without some (unknown) tweaking. Paul Abrahams