On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:34:49PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:31:19PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > > Each time my kernel boots, I see flashing on my screen for a sec the > > > word "FATAL" followed (on a seperate line) by kernel modules' names. I > > > am not sure what the FATAL error message is as it goes out of my screen > > > way too fast. > > 'dmesg' will show you your bootup messages (when you are able to login > that is).
In my experience, only the success messages. Problems seem to go unreported even though messages do appear on the screen during the booting process. > > > If you ever want to halt the scroll, just hold down Ctrl and hit S. If > > you miss it, and it is already off the screen, then try Ctrl and PageUp > > (or is it Shift and PageUp? - and IIRC for some reason this part doesn't > > always work). When you want it to start the scroll again use Ctrl and Q. > > It's Shift-PageUp. And in case Ctrl-S doesn't work, try the ScrollLock > key. > > -- > Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] > Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 > "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." > - Winston Churchill -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
