Boot messages

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:10:46PM -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> I see a stream of messages fly accross the screen when I boot.  At least
> one of them looks like a process failed.  What log can I read to see
> what happened?

You can either

  dmesg | less

or you can

  less /var/log/messages

and search for the last "restart" in the log.  That's where the boot
process starts getting logged.

> Thanks
> -- 
> Fred

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
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