From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: another place where bootup messages are recorded? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:35:48 -0700 Message-ID: <44F4CF54.5060905@comarre.com> References: <20060817141403.10351.qmail@web81707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200608271145.37956.kloro2006@gmail.com> <44F1F1EE.1010106@comarre.com> <200608291131.43788.kloro2006@gmail.com> <44F4AEBA.70201@gelm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44F4AEBA.70201@gelm.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Chuck Gelm wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > >> Recently I have begun to get a great number of messages at boot-up >> which are about 'querying' scsi drives. I need to get a better look at >> the messages, but cannot find them in the logs in /var/log. Is there >> another place where bootup messages are recorded? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom Arnall >> north spit, ca >> >> > man dmesg > ? > hth, Chuck In addition to what this man page tells you, see if you have a file called /var/log/dmesg . Many (all?) distros these days dump the contents of the dmesg buffer here during boot/init ... handy because dmesg accesses a ring buffer, and later messages may have overwritten the boot-time ones you want to see. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs