On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > My first Linux install was on a 386-33. I still have the steel full-sized AT > case around here somewhere... The hardest thing was figuring out the > monitor's frequencies for Xwindows, since at that time they were not > autodetected what so ever. > > In one way it was quite nice: I could read all the boot messages. It was easy > to see where there were problems, if any.
Also, I think the boot messages used to be more meaningful. Its too bad our dmesg now isn't like OpenBSD's. They don't ask for lscpi or anything, its all right there in the dmesg. > > Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log > doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them > as they went by, especially when I see something "Gee, that doesn't look > right..." and poof it's gone. If you have two boxes, link them by serial cable. Have them set to send their console output both to the serial port and to the display. Once booted, have them open the port and log the output. As long as you don't boot both machines at the same time, you should have everything. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
