Arch Linux

mbw

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Registered: 2020-01-04

Posts: 38

How can you access or save the output shown during boot/shutdown?

During boot, a series of messages is shown, including:

• Something like "welcome to Arch Linux" or similar

• A prominent C-style comment block saying something about an X.509 certificate

• A series of startup jobs of the form "[YES] Some job" or "[NO] Some failed job"

The terminal is then cleared to show the initial login screen (I invoke startx manually).

Something very similar is shown during shutdown.

Both these outputs do not show up via `journalctl -b` (presumably because the backing service is not up during that time or the filesystem is not mounted?) and grepping in /var/log, I didn't find it either.

Can these messages be shown again after having logged in?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,234

Re: How can you access or save the output shown during boot/shutdown?

Look at sudo journalctl -b instead. You should at least see the service info. in any case the other way to do it is to record the screen with a camera. If it's stuff in the initramfs which is shown before the root partition is mounted it won't be stored.