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rv2733

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Registered: 2006-12-28

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On boot screen messages - How to read after boot?[SOLVED]

Hi,

On boot. I see an error message but it scrolls by too fast. I can't find any reference in the log files. How can I read the screen messages on boot?

macroron

Last edited by rv2733 (2008-08-10 22:15:00)

lucke

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Re: On boot screen messages - How to read after boot?[SOLVED]

If it's kernel message, it should be in dmesg (run command "dmesg").

If it's Arch's message (white bold text), you can disable clearing the first virtual console by removing the first line in /etc/issue (you'd better "cp /etc/issue /etc/issue.back" before doing that). Press ctrl-alt-f1 to see the first virtual console.

rv2733

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Registered: 2006-12-28

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Re: On boot screen messages - How to read after boot?[SOLVED]

If it's kernel message, it should be in dmesg (run command "dmesg").

If it's Arch's message (white bold text), you can disable clearing the first virtual console by removing the first line in /etc/issue (you'd better "cp /etc/issue /etc/issue.back" before doing that). Press ctrl-alt-f1 to see the first virtual console.

Thank You,

I removed the first line in /etc/issue after backing up /etc/issue to /etc/issue.back. Then rebooted.

Now I can see Arch's messages (white bold text) on ctrl-alt-f1.

macroron

MaKr0

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Re: On boot screen messages - How to read after boot?[SOLVED]

Or even better, you could install the bootlogd package, which will dump all the messages, you see blazing by at boot time, into the boot.log file in the /var/log/ directory.
Then you can de/active it as needed like any other daemons.

jasonwryan

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Re: On boot screen messages - How to read after boot?[SOLVED]

MaKr0, please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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