Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: : You can sometimes pause the display using Ctrl-S or the Pause key. : Printing the screen from the CLI is harder. I used to use something : like "cat /dev/vcs1 > screen.txt" or "cat /dev/vcsa1 > screen.vcsa", : but a normal user can no longer do that. If you have gpm running, : you can copy and paste using hte mouse buttons to save the text to a : file. Last evening, while trying to uncover why an LVM root filesystem wouldn't successfully complete the boot process, I discovered that (at least on my system, a Dell 490 Precision Workstation) the Scroll Lock key stops the VT scrolling. What's more, it also appeared to halt the boot process near the point of the push. For when I re-pushed it, the scrolling began again at the same place and speed. In other words, I didn't get a bunch of high-speed lines sprayed to the VT from a buffer. I just tried this again to be sure. Indeed, the boot seems to halt near the time of the push. Disk activity stops. It starts up again on the next push. Very nice! I suppose the BIOS (or the kernel?) is absorbing the keystroke and sending a PAUSE to the CPU. Dean
