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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote: |
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> > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first |
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> > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was |
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> > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg. It doesn't do this on the new |
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> > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting |
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> > > invoked this behaviour. Help?? |
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> > |
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> > /etc/conf.d/rc |
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> Thanks for the reminder, walt. I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there |
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> and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, |
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> but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg. |
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If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and |
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openrc. In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and you |
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should not use app-admin/showconsole. |
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Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments. |
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William Hubbs |
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gentoo accessibility team lead |
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williamh@g.o |
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