Empty boot.log

[John DeDourek]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

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

You can either:
-- boot and then immediately type
    /sbin/dmesg
   which is a utility that shows the latest ???K of kernel messages, 
which should be
   all the boot messages if you do it before there are too many other 
messages from
   the kernel
OR
-- boot and anytime before the next boot type
    cat /var/log/dmesg
    or whatever scheme you use to look at a text file.  This shows the 
file that
   "remembers" what "/sbin/dmesg" produced shortly after boot.

If you are familiar with shell scripts, there is a script that runs 
shortly after boot that
does something like
    /sbin/dmesg  >  /var/log/dmesg