[gentoo-user] Re: CD boot - dmesg buffer depth option?

[James]

Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I'm trying to capture the full boot log when booting from the Gentoo
> install CD but it seems the buffer isn't deep enough to get the whole
> thing. Is there by chance a command line option that will increase the
> depth of what's captured by dmesg so that I can get all the way back
> to the beginning?

Well here is what I use in root's .bashrc file to fix this sort
of issue:


alias dmesg='dmesg -s 262144 | less'


That way dmesg is extended....

dmesg -s 262144  is what you are looking for, I think, or
larger....

hth,
James