Karsten How do I 'boot single'?
I managed to miss Brenda's message. Would you send me a string to use to search the archives (once they are posted on debian.org) Finally what FM do I R to find out some of these things. I like to just read the manuals -- when I have time. It's final exam time, and I'm a prof. Just point me, please. David On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:59:37PM -0500, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > 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? > > Boot single. Then run your init scripts one-at-a-time, by hand. See > /etc/init.d/README or Brenda's recent post here for instructions / > descriptions of sysv init. > > The remaining messages that aren't captured are the kernel and device > output (e.g.: SCSI initalization) which aren't captured to either dmesg > or output by sysv scripts. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free > Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
