boot screen detail

[lchisholm]

When you boot a os and it starts scrolling on the screen;
is there a way to pause that so you can see the detail of an error that is
has just displayed on the screen.
I have seen several "failed" type displayed and I would like to write down
what the exact detail is in order to try and resolve the issue.
Thank You
Larry.

[fingal]

Hi - it's a good question. I think you can use the dmesg command for this instead. Basically dmesg is all the kernel stuff which occurs at boot time.

Open a terminal and - somewhere in your home directory perhaps - type dmesg > bootstuff.txt

I think that should put your boot time details into a text file. Then you could use the grep command to search for the word 'Error'. That's a bit vague perhaps, but I'm using Windows today.

The thing to remember is that most flavours of *nix log nearly everything, so if it happens (or goes wrong) there's usually a record of it.

[neverus]

I would start with a look in /var/log/boot.log. If you can't find your errors in there then try /var/log/messages (which logs just about everything).

Terry

[lchisholm]

Thanks to those that responded.
I forgot the log that is created.

Larry.