Capturing boot up messages to text file.

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Tue, July 21, 2009 06:56, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Victor Padro wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Ray Parrish<crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to capture the boot up messqges from debug to  a text file,
>>> but my attempt at redirection did not work. Here is what I tried -
>>>
>>> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic
>>> root=UUID=1d21c59f-6a91-4923-8a91-d8ef30dd8096 ro splash debug time >
>>> /home/ray/bootmessages.txt
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a way to do this that works?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Ray Parrish
>>>
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>>
>> maybe doing this?
>>
>> #cp /var/log/debug /var/log/debug.txt
>>
> No... that stuff is available in the log viewer, and isn't even close to
> what I'm trying to capture from the boot up screens.

This may be of help:

http://www.foogazi.com/2008/06/07/quickzi-how-to-log-boot-messages-in-ubuntu/

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