Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:16:55 -0600, Dale wrote:

> > Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not
> > going to be written to /var.

> Yea, it won't catch everything.  This is sort of designed for that point
> where one log stops and the other hasn't started yet.  This is usually
> where dmesg stops and syslog and friends hasn't yet started.  Of course,
> if /var isn't mounted, well, it has no where to go.
> 
> Isn't those init thingys supposed to fix this sort of thing tho?  Isn't
> it supposed to store it in memory until /var is mounted and then dump
> it?

The combination of dracut and systemd means it all goes in the journal.
The journal is kept in memory and then flushed to disk later in the boot
process.

journalctl is rather neat, being able to search both dmesg and system
logs in one go, and apply various search criteria, is far more flexible
than the alternatives.


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Neil Bothwick

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