Empty boot.log

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri May 12 02:48:28 UTC 2006


On 5/11/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton:
> >> That's plain ridiculous. How am I to troubleshoot error messages that
> >> come up during boot? I can't exactly pause the boot.
>
> Aaron Konstam:
> > No but running dmesg soon after boot will give you what you need.
> > I say soon because dmesg reads from a finite buffer.
>
> Though, if you have boot problems and never get up to that point, it
> won't do you much good.  But did the older systems (that wrote the boot
> log file) write it as it went along, or rely on the system managing to
> boot far enough that it could flush a buffer to the disc, anyway?
>
I can't remember exactly. but i would say the latter.
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