On 08/05/2010 03:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:19:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt >> show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find >> what they are. > > Set rc_logger="YES" in /etc/rc.conf to have the boot sequence logged > to /var/log/rc.log. This is for BL2, BL1 has a similar setting. > > It gives this output here > > rc boot logging started at Tue Aug 3 17:39:35 2010 > > * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... > [ ok ] > * Loading module fuse ... > [ ok ] > * Loading module rfcomm ... > [ ok ] > * Loading module kvm-intel ... > [ ok ] > * Autoloaded 3 module(s) > ... > > You can also increase the size of the dmesg ring buffer, which was > discussed on this list last month. > >
After booting try Shift-PageUp. Hopefully your not booting to run level 5, if you are you need to get to the alternate terminal with all the messages on it. Try Shift-PageUp before and after logging in. The buffer isn't that big and I'd like to know how it can be increased so I can go back to earlier messages, but I haven't found that out yet. The Shift-PageUp may get you back far enough to see the message that scrolled by.
