Re: [gentoo-user] Error during boot up.

[J. Roeleveld]

On December 20, 2018 4:41:26 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I just installed a new video card.  After a couple weeks of USPS
>dragging it around, it finally came in.  Anyway, I got it installed and
>was booting up.  I noticed somewhere between the kernel part and it
>going through the runlevel part, there was something that failed.  I
>saw
>a little red colored text and the word failed but I found one bad thing
>about a really fast CPU.  It scrolls by so fast, I can't tell what it
>is.  It is almost a blur when it scrolls up.  It's not a service
>because
>rc-status shows all green.  I'm not sure that lists everything tho
>since
>it seems a little light on the number of services. 
>
>At some point way back, I recall there being a logger that picks up the
>area between when dmesg is logging and when syslog or friends start
>logging to the message file.  I think this is where the error is.  I
>can't find tool now.  I also can't find anything else in /var/log
>either.  Am I wrong on having this or did it die off in the tree and
>got
>removed?  If so, is there something that picks up that area of the boot
>up process as far as errors go?  My system seems to work fine but I'd
>like to know what that error was.  It may cause a problem at some point
>and could even be the problem with that random reboot I had in another
>thread. 
>
>Thanks.
>
>Dale
>
>:-)  :-) 
>
>P. S.  I did reseat all the power cables to the mobo while I was
>swapping video cards.  Hoping that may help with that weird reboot
>thing
>I had going on.  BTW, it hasn't happened since the one I started the
>thread about either.  Weird. 

In "rc.conf" there is an option to log to /var/log/rc.log or similar.
Not near a working system, so can't check actual option.

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