On Sat, 8 May 2004, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Hi I've just had to relocate my FC1 to a different partition. I used > tar... Then I edited the new fedora's /etc/fstab & /etc/lilo.conf & a > few scripts. > > FC1 booted successfully in it's new home. Everything seams to be working > correctly (so far). > > But just before the runlevel 3 boot prompt there are a few warning > messages I don't get time to read before the boot prompt steps on them. > No problem I thinks. <shift>+<page up> But while most of the boot screen > messages are there, the error messages I'm looking for which were near > the bottom are not there. > > I searched the archive for boot + log. But all it told me about was the > dmesg command and of course var/log/* But nothing in var/log (including > dmesg seems to have the same exact text as was printed to the console. > I'm sure that the data in the logs is probably considered more > significant. But I sometimes see errors there that do NOT appear in the > /var/log logs. I'm thinking that this output is not saved to a log by > default. > > I'd like to know if there is something I can do to cause this exact text > to actually be logged someplace??? or if there is a way to stop the login > prompt from clearing the last screenful of the boot screen messages??? In /etc/inittab, scan down to the section about gettys. Add the option '--noclear' to the end of the first mingetty command. That will prevent the screen clear when the login prompt is issued so you can <shift>-<pageup>. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
