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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

booting up, lots of red lines...

When my computer boots up using the zen kernel from AUR. I see a lot of red lines that scroll by but my computer still boots and runs fine.

what I was wondering is how can I find out exactly what these red lines where saying and how do I find the information I need to diagnose these problems. I tried dmesg and it says a lot, but it doesn't output red lines like when the computer is booting so I have no idea what I am looking for.

Any suggestions on how to either slow down the boot process so I can read the damn screen or is there another easier way?

wavenator

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Registered: 2007-12-03

Posts: 62

Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

nothing
dont be worry
its just the graphic set ^^

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Eradest

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 56

Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

isn't there some log the boot-messages are written to?

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

/var/log/messages.log
/var/log/kernel.log

however installing 3.5GB of git sources seems a little excessive.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

however installing 3.5GB of git sources seems a little excessive.

what exactly do you mean?

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

sorry, should be 0.5GB for patch

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

isn't there some log the boot-messages are written to?

$ dmesg

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schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

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Re: booting up, lots of red lines...

or..

echo "read KEY" >> /etc/rc.local

that way you can scroll up with SHIFT+PG UP and down with PG DN, then ENTER when done.

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