Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen...

[Robert Crawford <flacycads@cox.net>]

Same problem here- I've tried for a while to figure it out, with no luck. I'd 
also like to not have it not overwritten with each boot, and appended 
instead.

On Friday 10 February 2006 04:09, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
> >> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is
> >> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved
> >> somehow?
> >
> > The early part of the startup information is available from
> > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG
> > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file.
>
> I gave it a try, and it seems that not everything gets logged:
>  	$ cat /var/log/boot.msg
>
>  	 * Activating (possible) swap ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Checking root filesystem ...
>  	/home: clean, 48404/256512 files, 122807/512064 blocks
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Setting hostname to moria ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Calculating module dependencies ...
>  	 * System.map not found - unable to check symbols
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Checking all filesystems ...
>  	/boot: clean, 45/8032 files, 9889/32098 blocks
>  	/1: clean, 237777/768544 files, 880666/1536215 blocks
>  	/dev/hda12: clean, 35/131616 files, 4220/263056 blocks
>  	/dev/hdb1: clean, 14439/3842720 files, 4020444/7679062 blocks
>  	/dev/hdb4: clean, 62419/4374528 files, 2600814/8747392 blocks
>  	/dev/hda13: clean, 66726/1284224 files, 802063/2568384 blocks
>  	/: clean, 4035/513024 files, 40118/1024143 blocks
>  	/dev/hda11: clean, 141207/780288 files, 1043596/1560305 blocks (check in
> 2 mounts) /dev/hda10: clean, 2559/788704 files, 971368/1574362 blocks
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Mounting local filesystems ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Activating (possibly) more swap ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Configuring kernel parameters ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Updating environment ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Cleaning /tmp directory ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Coldplugging input devices ...
>  	  [ ok ]
>  	 * Coldplugging isapnp devices ...
>  	  [ ok ]
> What about everything from "Coldplugging pnp devices ..." to the end
> (net, local, etc.) ?
> Is this normal?
> --
> Jorge Almeida
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