[arch-general] Where is the boot log?

Richard Schütz r.schtz at t-online.de
Fri Mar 18 05:05:29 EDT 2011


Am 18.03.2011 09:56, schrieb SanskritFritz:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Madhurya Kakati<mkakati2805 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I guess arch should have a boot log. It is something every OS should have
>> IMHO.
>>
>
> Isn't that dmesg? Or are you looking for something else?

He is looking for the error output of the scripts that are executed 
while booting. In his case it is the output of alsactl which is called 
in "/etc/rc.d/alsa". That stuff is only printed to the terminal and does 
not go to the kernel ring buffer.

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Regards,
Richard Schütz


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