Stepping through boot process

Onyx^ · 02-26-2004, 09:35 AM

Hi,

I use a LILO bootloader with 2.4.18 kernel.

I want to be able to step through each line of the boot process as it happens. Is there a key to interrupt the automatic process ?

I can scroll up and see what has happened, but only get so far because the buffer is cleared when the framebuffer device is loaded.

Thanks in advance.

Ashley Rolleston

kilgoretrout · 02-26-2004, 10:29 AM

If you want to just see every line in the boot messages, immediately after boot run:

$ dmesg

or to save it to a text file for later review:

$ dmesg > dmesg.txt

that will save the output to a text file in your home directory named dmesg.txt.

Onyx^ · 02-26-2004, 10:42 AM

lovely, thankyou!