Boot.log question/fix ?

Gabriel VLASIU gabriel at vlasiu.net
Fri Sep 18 18:58:35 UTC 2009


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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Phil Meyer wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:22:50 -0600
> From: Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com>
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> Subject: Re: Boot.log question/fix ?
> 
> On 09/18/2009 08:00 AM, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I was looking at my boot.log this morning and found confusing symbols
> > that distract from its clarity.
> >
> > E.g.
> > ...
> > emounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  [
> > OK  ]
> > Mounting local filesystems:  [  OK  ]
> > Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
> > Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  [  OK  ]
> > Entering non-interactive startup
> > Applying Intel CPU microcode update: [  OK  ]
> > ...
> >
> > I gather, [ has something to do with Tab [ and ]
> > represents ]\n.  The problem probably has something to do with locale
> > and/or basic fonts installed.
> >
> > Does anybody know how I should configure whatever to get the boot.log to
> > print properly ?
> >
> > None of my other logs have this problem.
> >
> >    
> 
> I believe those are the ascii codes to change the colors.  more or cat the
> file instead of editing it. :)
Or you cand disable colors in boot process. Just change BOOTUP variable to 
something else in /etc/sysconfig/init (grep for BOOTUP in 
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions to see why).


Gabriel

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