help needed to enable boot.log in Hardy Heron

[Vitorio Okio]

I badly need to log all the messages I see on my screen upon the boot 
process. 

Please, do not advise me of any system logs. I'm aware of their 
existence :-> and they are missing the specific messages I do see (but 
too fast) upon the boot.

The number of scripts are installed by default in Hardy that are supposed 
to do the job.  

>From what I found I'm supposed to edit /etc/default/bootlogd file and to 
change the following line:

BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No
to
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes.

This did not work and as I found rightfully, since this file is read by /
etc/init.d/bootlogd script and the script in its turn is supposed to run 
the actual bootlogd program.  

Unfortunately bootlogd is not installed in Hardy (Why the hell they did 
then installed scripts for it by default is out of my comprehension. 
Probably they just wanted to add some confusion. :->). 

To install the program I am advised to install sysvinit from the 
repository.  But when I marked it for install in Synaptic it gave the 
following long list of things to be removed:

friendly-recovery, startup-tasks, system-services, ubuntu-minimal, 
upstart, upstart-compat-sysv, and upstart-logd.

The list suggests that by doing so I will rather screw down my system.

Any suggestions folks?  The file /var/log/boot exists but empty. Help me 
to fill it in, please.  I googled it half a day without any result.