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On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 06:55 -0400, dhk wrote: |
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> On 08/05/2010 03:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:19:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > |
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> >> Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt |
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> >> show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find |
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> >> what they are. |
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> > |
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> > Set rc_logger="YES" in /etc/rc.conf to have the boot sequence logged |
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> > to /var/log/rc.log. This is for BL2, BL1 has a similar setting. |
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> > |
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> > It gives this output here |
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> > |
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> > rc boot logging started at Tue Aug 3 17:39:35 2010 |
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> > |
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> > * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... |
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> > [ ok ] |
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> > * Loading module fuse ... |
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> > [ ok ] |
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> > * Loading module rfcomm ... |
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> > [ ok ] |
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> > * Loading module kvm-intel ... |
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> > [ ok ] |
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> > * Autoloaded 3 module(s) |
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> > ... |
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> > |
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> > You can also increase the size of the dmesg ring buffer, which was |
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> > discussed on this list last month. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> |
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> After booting try Shift-PageUp. Hopefully your not booting to run level |
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> 5, if you are you need to get to the alternate terminal with all the |
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> messages on it. Try Shift-PageUp before and after logging in. The |
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> buffer isn't that big and I'd like to know how it can be increased so I |
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> can go back to earlier messages, but I haven't found that out yet. |
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> The Shift-PageUp may get you back far enough to see the message that |
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> scrolled by. |
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I didnt think gentoo uses runlevel 5 - you mean into X I think |
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I'll try that next time (not booting into X) and see what happens - but |
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I think it resets itself somewhere in the middle of the text as well as |
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scrolling off the top of the buffer - can be increased I think and |
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booting into single might stop the graphics reset. |
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thanks for the hint. |
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BillK |
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