"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > system boots. > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the kernel, > and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. > > How can I do this? >
Immediately after your system boots, and before logging in, hit shift+pgup and you will be able to scroll back through the boot messages. I don't know if there's any way to save them to a file though... short of using VMWare or something like that. HTH
