Re: Capturing Boot Messages?

Am 20.09.23 um 20:40 schrieb Dan Mahoney:
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>> On Sep 20, 2023, at 10:53 AM, Ede Wolf <listac@nebelschwaden.de> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I am seeing boot messages on screen, errors from rc.conf, that I have yet to find in any log. Neither dmesg, nor /var/run/dmesg.boot nor in /var/log/messages.
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>> Any chance to reread the full boot process somewhere or to set up full boot logging?
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> So anything that came from the kernel before init started would get stuck into /var/run/dmesg.boot…
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> Anything that came from init, and the rc subsystem, you could enable using the hints in /etc/syslog.conf
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> # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log
> # touch /var/log/console.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work
> #console.info                                   /var/log/console.log
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> Noting from a run of rcorder /etc/rc.d/* that there are some things that start before syslogd, so it might not catch those.
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> -Dan

Thanks, that is another good way, in addition to dmesg -a, that also 
solved my issue.
As this is generally a very useful thing to do, I've enabled it. It does 
  shows the error messages I have been looking for, as they came up 
quite late in the boot process.