Help needed to enable boot.log in Hardy Heron

[Mumia W.]

David Armour wrote:
> [...]
> I have been up and down my Firefox history several times today looking 
> for anything that would a) jog my increasingly pathetic memory, or b) 
> qualify as a source for a citation, but with no obvious candidates. I'm 
> reasonably sure I'm not hallucinating, at least about having read about 
> Crtl-S/Crtl-Q (for start/stop), and/or Crtl-Alt-F8. But the short answer 
> to your entirely reasonable question, I'm sad to say, is still "no", or 
> at least until my memory unlocks and I can find where I read it. I'm 
> feeling a bit like Winston Smith after he'd seen the photo...
> 
> The other option to which I'm willing to give a shot: simply re-boot, 
> try the keyboard sequence(s), and see what happens. Back in the days 
> when I was out of my depth in FreeBSD, (has it been that long?) I used 
> to hit Pause to get the bootlog messages to stand still for a while. Or 
> something along those lines. So I do have long-ish-term memories of 
> actually doing something along the lines of hitting Crtl-S and Crtl-Q 
> and having it produce the desired outcomes. But in any case, I'll let 
> the list know, assuming I don't bork everything irretrievably! Cover me! 
> I'm goin' in!
> 
> 

These codes seem to be documented in "man 4 console_codes"

I too have used Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q to stop the bootup messages long 
enough for me to see them.