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Re: [TCLUG:9574] Where is boot information logged?



> OK.  dmesg gives me the info from the kernel, right up to initializing
> swap space and all of that.  Is there any way to capture the rest of the
> init stuff?  I'm particularly interested in the messages generated by the
> init scripts.

Well, you can look in /var/log/messages, /var/log/boot, or hook up
another computer or a printer to your serial port and boot the system
with 'linux serial' (which sends console messages to the serial port.. 
In theory..)

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