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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: What happened to boot.msg?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:00:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910231900.34627.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hbsh2s$m11$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first
> > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was
> > logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new
> > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting
> > invoked this behaviour.   Help??
>
> /etc/conf.d/rc

Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there 
and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, 
but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.

-- 
Peter
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Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc46			kernel-2.6.31-gentoo-r3
AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor		gcc(Gentoo: 4.3.2-r3)
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-23 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-23 14:18 [gentoo-user] What happened to boot.msg? Peter Ruskin
2009-10-23 15:11 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-10-23 18:00   ` Peter Ruskin [this message]
2009-10-23 18:09     ` Peter Ruskin
2009-10-24 13:07       ` covici
2009-10-23 19:00     ` William Hubbs
2009-10-23 19:06       ` Peter Ruskin
2009-10-24 13:15       ` covici

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