logging startup messages

[Admin]

Hi there,

I need to log startup messages since the contents of my rc.local file 
are not getting read and/or executed.

In the /etc/default/bootlogd file I changed the following

from:
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No

to
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes


and still nothing is logged in /var/log/boot

and dmesg is not showing me the details I need.  I cant figure out from 
the dmesg if the execution of the startups in /etc/rc2.d are failing 
somewhere?

Clues please?

running sudo /etc/init.d/rc.local works fine

Cheers,

Noah