From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F51A138CA3 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1BDDE0948; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f170.google.com (mail-ig0-f170.google.com [209.85.213.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0942E08C1 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igqa13 with SMTP id a13so47483234igq.0 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:13:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=b4OLRY73ZbxFWJUIet3jpic1cvEAXxefflT4MGrwrps=; b=fgoX+Zey/0ibE+GV6XvzLZ3A39ayBbEg3P3DBgKkvCKgZrH86tJyKxzY/2RPCQ0tXy 4NVbfhEUfY9hF8FPJfxjF6v+ahALvh1jWH7ywsuRsw4OpFTOpo4GJCuiJRK3keK+u8ZU 01TiuVKnIRktDsAcYAIOYXEc2JB945+hH/4RK9h0fQZ44UfU00x9pIVe50goo5sv4zvj iH+EC2jFH9qc98BOp/0l3HFL2g5/u33UWKBTgYS0zu84/0HX2yoFRJwCX17YkBEh5tnh j+Qaz8jbkdz6ydoZ9Xi0CFVbFLgsg12hUDrk++eWZR2oCNkLyS0R2p/rYMBXyuRFwiK1 0KDQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.107.18.226 with SMTP id 95mr8206239ios.84.1425575597106; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:13:17 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.182.136 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:13:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150305170837.27994d5f@digimed.co.uk> References: <20150304215839.f23ab34e4ac7c30e4685c392@gmail.com> <54F7F4FE.5050902@gmail.com> <20150305030846.24cb9b0c54af337c17e3c863@gmail.com> <20150305082556.4aca38c9@digimed.co.uk> <54F81F07.1030704@gmail.com> <18823.1425556872@ccs.covici.com> <54F857FC.1090204@gmail.com> <20150305170837.27994d5f@digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:13:17 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aC4miIor1pMUYa8UkILeh8hMOz8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a024aa63-f7e1-4ab8-bd4f-c59dc41b9cbe X-Archives-Hash: aa420f4237047b391cb2f4bd7a828b30 On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:38:07 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> I personally use dracut which has quite a few bells and whistles. If >> you're using systemd as has already been pointed out it runs the >> journal during early boot and merges it into the system journal when >> it pivots. I believe that if you're not using systemd it captures >> whatever it does to a log file in /run, > > My understanding of the man page is that it only does that if you use the > rd.debug option. That wouldn't surprise me. I tend to use that option since I run stuff like root on btrfs, or root on nfs with kernel/initramfs over PXE and such - so you can imagine I'm a bit more likely to run into bugs than the typical root-on-ext4-sda1 sort. -- Rich