Same problem here- I've tried for a while to figure it out, with no luck. I'd also like to not have it not overwritten with each boot, and appended instead.
On Friday 10 February 2006 04:09, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:39:38 +0100, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > >> Is the information that runs on the screen before and after X is > >> started or closed saved in some place or can it be saved or retrieved > >> somehow? > > > > The early part of the startup information is available from > > dmesg. The next stage can be logged if you set RC_BOOTLOG > > in /etc/conf.d/rc. see the comments in that file. > > I gave it a try, and it seems that not everything gets logged: > $ cat /var/log/boot.msg > > * Activating (possible) swap ... > [ ok ] > * Checking root filesystem ... > /home: clean, 48404/256512 files, 122807/512064 blocks > [ ok ] > * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... > [ ok ] > * Setting hostname to moria ... > [ ok ] > * Calculating module dependencies ... > * System.map not found - unable to check symbols > [ ok ] > * Checking all filesystems ... > /boot: clean, 45/8032 files, 9889/32098 blocks > /1: clean, 237777/768544 files, 880666/1536215 blocks > /dev/hda12: clean, 35/131616 files, 4220/263056 blocks > /dev/hdb1: clean, 14439/3842720 files, 4020444/7679062 blocks > /dev/hdb4: clean, 62419/4374528 files, 2600814/8747392 blocks > /dev/hda13: clean, 66726/1284224 files, 802063/2568384 blocks > /: clean, 4035/513024 files, 40118/1024143 blocks > /dev/hda11: clean, 141207/780288 files, 1043596/1560305 blocks (check in > 2 mounts) /dev/hda10: clean, 2559/788704 files, 971368/1574362 blocks > [ ok ] > * Mounting local filesystems ... > [ ok ] > * Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ... > [ ok ] > * Activating (possibly) more swap ... > [ ok ] > * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ... > [ ok ] > * Configuring kernel parameters ... > [ ok ] > * Updating environment ... > [ ok ] > * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ... > [ ok ] > * Cleaning /tmp directory ... > [ ok ] > * Coldplugging input devices ... > [ ok ] > * Coldplugging isapnp devices ... > [ ok ] > What about everything from "Coldplugging pnp devices ..." to the end > (net, local, etc.) ? > Is this normal? > -- > Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
