help needed to enable boot.log in Hardy Heron

[Vitorio Okio]

"Chris Mohler" <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:acfad57e0806231856p4ead2181s8290a6446e243e2f at mail.gmail.com...
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Vitorio Okio <ovitorio at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I badly need to log all the messages I see on my screen upon the 
>> boot
>> process.
>
> Have you tried the 'dmesg' command right after booting?

I certainly did but without any luck.  The messages I need are 
pre-syslog messages.  I tried to enable "verbose" in rcS, and of 
course it did not help either.

The only way for me to get the messages is to log the actual console 
output that is shown upon boot.

I was kept googling and found that there was a certain development in 
regards to boot logging.  It looks like sysvinit is being replaced by 
upstart package.  But the last does not include bootlogd.

So, to me it looks that there is no way to get boot.log filled in 
Hardy.  And it leaves me puzzled even more now, why they included the 
bootlogd scripts if they are of no use now?

It's crazy, the boot messages are of extreme need in many situations. 
But what is their value when they scroll up with a crazy speed and 
there is no way to log them in (unless I put my monitor on a Xerox 
:->).