Empty boot.log

[Arthur Pemberton]

So basically, I need to boot, then immediate check /var/log/dmesg ?

On 5/11/06, John DeDourek <dedourek at unb.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
> >
> > No but running dmesg soon after boot will give you what you need.
> > I say soon because dmesg reads from a finite buffer.
> >
>
> On most Fedora Core systems (I just checked a Core 4 and a Core 5
> system; it's true for these), the boot scripts "unload" the dmesg
> buffer into /var/log/dmesg at some point in the boot.  Thus examining
> that file will give most of the boot messages put into the dmesg
> buffer during the last boot, even if subsequent kernel logging
> messages have forced the boot messages to drop off the real
> dmesg queue (as read by the "/bin/dmesg" utility).
>
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