From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogqo1-0004j4-1E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:07:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EF25E0B31 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 03:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jumpgate.rods.id.au (ppp196-18.static.internode.on.net [59.167.196.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA81E07C2 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 02:47:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jumpgate.rods.id.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jumpgate.rods.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E6161048D for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:47:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from [192.168.3.44] (shadow.rods.id.au [192.168.3.44]) by jumpgate.rods.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46E83DE932 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:47:49 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4C5A2635.7020903@Rods.id.au> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:47:17 +1000 From: Rod User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot log References: <1280967569.8670.43.camel@troll> <4C5A0F76.10006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C5A0F76.10006@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: 8cdcf9f1-2f94-4f8d-9562-1a17faa60ee1 X-Archives-Hash: 7a98acdba0f265fc915c4666d0202ffc On 5/08/2010 11:10 AM, Dakota wrote: > On 8/4/2010 8:19 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt >> show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find >> what they are. >> >> BillK >> >> >> >> >> > /var/log/messages doesn't contain anything relevant? I thought that's > where stuff like that got logged. > Also, have you checked /var/log/kern.log? > > You'd possibly find that /var/log/everything/current is the Gentoo logging location I have a symlink from there to /var/log/messages There is a backup of dmesg stored in /var/log/dmesg I use a combination of dmesg | less and /var/log/everything/current and lsmod for module testing (if they load and don't load)