help needed to enable boot.log in Hardy Heron

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Mario Vukelic
<mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:46 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Ctrl-alt-F8 is a little more obscure, but it's where I find all the
>> boot messages - and again, I said it here, last week.  How the
>> messages come to be on F8 is still unclear to me, and I don't think
>> it's guaranteed.
>
> I don't know the exact mechanism either, but it seems that upstart (the
> sysvinit replacement) dumps them there: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
>
>> I tend to just cycle through all the TTYs.
>
> I *think* that one needs to switch to another TTY first, then to F8. Not
> sure why. I always switch to F1 first, then to F8, and that works
> reliably

To get all your output in one place, and away from tty1 where it gets
in the way...

1 - Add kopt=console=tty12 to grub.1st and run update-grub
2 - edit /etc/syslog.conf - change the entry already there but
commented out to also use tty12

The original poster wanted something that blows by quickly and wasn't
in the syslog or dmesg.   That's why I suggested a real tty as output
so it was easier to capture.

Brian