From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F7UMZ-0001rZ-BY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:14:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1A9Dmrk010157; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:13:48 GMT Received: from cubo.math.ist.utl.pt (cubo.math.ist.utl.pt [193.136.196.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1A99mUY003882 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:09:48 GMT Received: from jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt (jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt [193.136.196.112]) by cubo.math.ist.utl.pt (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id k1A99jqq015182 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:09:45 GMT Received: (qmail 1710 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2006 09:09:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Feb 2006 09:09:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:09:45 +0000 (WET) From: Jorge Almeida To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ...startup information on screen... In-Reply-To: <20060206141318.72867080@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <000501c62b22$ca3a2b10$419d72d5@Larissa> <20060206141318.72867080@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 508d4cdb-7747-4cce-a261-e8bf63b938c9 X-Archives-Hash: a50b64305a90522eb20b8d58b34e4c63 On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > >> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is >> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved >> somehow? > > The early part of the startup information is available from > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file. > I gave it a try, and it seems that not everything gets logged: $ cat /var/log/boot.msg * Activating (possible) swap ... [ ok ] * Checking root filesystem ... /home: clean, 48404/256512 files, 122807/512064 blocks [ ok ] * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ] * Setting hostname to moria ... [ ok ] * Calculating module dependencies ... * System.map not found - unable to check symbols [ ok ] * Checking all filesystems ... /boot: clean, 45/8032 files, 9889/32098 blocks /1: clean, 237777/768544 files, 880666/1536215 blocks /dev/hda12: clean, 35/131616 files, 4220/263056 blocks /dev/hdb1: clean, 14439/3842720 files, 4020444/7679062 blocks /dev/hdb4: clean, 62419/4374528 files, 2600814/8747392 blocks /dev/hda13: clean, 66726/1284224 files, 802063/2568384 blocks /: clean, 4035/513024 files, 40118/1024143 blocks /dev/hda11: clean, 141207/780288 files, 1043596/1560305 blocks (check in 2 mounts) /dev/hda10: clean, 2559/788704 files, 971368/1574362 blocks [ ok ] * Mounting local filesystems ... [ ok ] * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ... [ ok ] * Activating (possibly) more swap ... [ ok ] * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... [ ok ] * Configuring kernel parameters ... [ ok ] * Updating environment ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ ok ] * Coldplugging input devices ... [ ok ] * Coldplugging isapnp devices ... [ ok ] What about everything from "Coldplugging pnp devices ..." to the end (net, local, etc.) ? Is this normal? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list