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perseus

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Registered: 2007-01-28

Posts: 160

Logging of messages at the end of the boot process

I have been on linux quite a while - most recently 2.5 years on Arch, but I really think this is a newbie question and I am rather ashamed not to know the answer.

Are the messages printed to the screen at the end of the boot process (after dmesg stops logging) logged anywhere?  Is there any other way of knowing what they are?  If they are just warnings rather than show stoppers, then they appear momentarily and I frequently don't have time to read them (or read them properly) before they are gone.  I am seeing one at the moment about .config files, but it is the last thing printed before the login console appears and I simply can't read it in time.

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Logging of messages at the end of the boot process

If you only need to read what is on the screen your Scroll Lk will pause it.

There is also a Wiki article:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dis … t_messages

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perseus

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Registered: 2007-01-28

Posts: 160

Re: Logging of messages at the end of the boot process

Many thanks loafer.