How do I pull up the boot messages?

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Post #178,323 by drewk 10/7/04 6:41:28 PM Reply	How do I pull up the boot messages? While booting last night, it stalled for over a minute trying to initialize a usb device. Then when it gave up there was an error message, but it scrolled by so quickly I couldn't read it. I imagine this iw why my multi-format media reader still isn't working. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #178,343 by deSitter 10/7/04 9:04:13 PM Reply	dmesg -drl
Post #178,346 by drewk 10/7/04 9:19:00 PM Reply	Thanks === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #178,417 by folkert 10/8/04 9:24:31 AM Reply	Bad advice. No explanation. This is bad advice to give someone with lesser knowledge. Serious I swear it must be a paradigm where the ADMIN always want to keep he/her grip on everything. How can you live with yourself NOT sharing the reasoning and motives and knowledge behind your on liner. gag retch Drew, BTW. In Debian (which you are using) /var/log/kern.log stores to last boot messages, more than dmesg gives usually. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source] Here is an example: [link\|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/\|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
Post #178,414 by Yendor 10/8/04 9:11:37 AM Reply	/var/log/kern.log Helpful as well. -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania

How do I pull up the boot messages? - (drewk) - (4) - Oct. 7, 2004, 06:41:28 PM EDT

dmesg -NT - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 7, 2004, 09:04:13 PM EDT

Thanks -NT - (drewk) - Oct. 7, 2004, 09:19:00 PM EDT

Bad advice. - (folkert) - Oct. 8, 2004, 09:24:31 AM EDT

/var/log/kern.log - (Yendor) - Oct. 8, 2004, 09:11:37 AM EDT

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