In attempting to solve some problems I need to capture the console output on bootup. These are messages that evidently don't make it into dmesg or any other log file I can find. I'm guessing these are kernel messages that occur before dmesg and other logs are started? Since they flash by fast I can only see that they are colored, like warnings and errors. Searching dmesg does not find them all. One has to do with fstab.
In researching the use of bootlogd I came upon this previous thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...otlogd-918962/
The upshot of that thread is that CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS needs to be enabled in the kernel.
Well, I don't want to compile a kernel (at this time), and evidently bootlogd is no longer used (much)?
So, what is the current, modern way to capture bootup messages? Is there some other program that has replaced bootlogd? Or?
Running LMDE with recent kernel (3.2 something).
Thanks,
Keith Ostertag