Boot messages?

Josef Wolf jw at raven.inka.de
Fri Jul 22 08:08:48 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 05:53:47PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 09:34 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > I remove the "quiet" option in the kernel parameter list, so I can 
> > see the messages that are output during boot.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, when boot is ready, the screen is cleared and the 
> > login prompt (or graphical login manager) appears, giving me no 
> > chance to read any error messages. Switching back with CTRL-ALT-F!
> > don't help, either.
> > 
> > How can I read those messages?
> 
> The "dmesg" command should show you most if not all of them.
> 
> Also see /var/log/kern.log

This will show me only what the kernel said.

It won't show me the output that was generated by the
start-scripts/systemd-services

-- 
Josef Wolf
jw at raven.inka.de




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