Capturing boot up messages to text file.

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Tue, July 21, 2009 14:53, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>
> On Tue, July 21, 2009 06:56, Ray Parrish wrote:
>> Victor Padro wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Ray Parrish<crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to capture the boot up messqges from debug to  a text
>>>> file,
>>>> but my attempt at redirection did not work. Here is what I tried -
>>>>
>>>> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
>>>> root=UUID=1d21c59f-6a91-4923-8a91-d8ef30dd8096 ro splash debug time >
>>>> /home/ray/bootmessages.txt
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of a way to do this that works?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>>>>
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>>>
>>> maybe doing this?
>>>
>>> #cp /var/log/debug /var/log/debug.txt
>>>
>> No... that stuff is available in the log viewer, and isn't even close to
>> what I'm trying to capture from the boot up screens.
>
> This may be of help:
>
> http://www.foogazi.com/2008/06/07/quickzi-how-to-log-boot-messages-in-ubuntu/

Actually this one is probably a bit more successful:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49925

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