On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> 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.
 
 If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and
 openrc.  In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and you
 should not use app-admin/showconsole.

Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments.

-- 
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org