Capturing boot up messages to text file.

[Ray Parrish]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 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
>   
I read all five pages of that, and I'm still not able to get it to work. 
Did you try that stuff on 8.04 and get it to work?

Thanks for the tip, I'm off to re-read it, and try again.

Later, Ray Parrish

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things including my poetry.
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