Screen is a awesome tool but it can't capture everything what's happened during boot.
The dd-solusion did the trick perfectly, exempt when I put the data into Microsoft Windows because there was a bunch of unwritable characters that I had to take care of. Thanks anyway Regards rancor On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Joachim Schipper < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:37:47PM +0200, rancor wrote: > > Hi > > > > Is there any way of copy/pipe the information on the console to a file? I > > need the same information that I can see of I hold down Ctrl+Shift and > using > > PageUp/Down when I'm on the console. I'm not using serial, that would be > > simple but I'm stuck right on the machine. > > While Mickey's solution is rather cool, misc/screen would allow you to > copy text off the screen (Ctrl-A [, select. Ctrl-A ]). It also has a lot > of other useful commands. > > Of course, screen isn't found everywhere, while dd pretty much is. > > Joachim > > -- > TFMotD: term (7) - conventions for naming terminal types