reviewing boot screen

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: reviewing boot screen
started by: Big_Pc_Man

Posted by Big_Pc_Man on July 30 2007,00:37

Is there a simple trick to view the boot screen dialog results post boot after the desktop has loaded?

Posted by mikshaw on July 30 2007,04:56

Without remastering (most of the stuff you see during the boot sequence is simply echos), I think the nearest thing would be the dmesg command, which can be redirected to a file if needed.

Posted by lucky13 on July 30 2007,04:59

Try stats.lua (system stats in the menu). (edit: It has dmesg output from boot.)

Posted by rja on July 30 2007,19:14

Hit Control-Alt-F1, then Control-Alt-F2 to go back.

You can add "secure" to the boot prompt. Then when it prompts for the passwords, you can read the screen at your leisure.

Posted by Big_Pc_Man on July 31 2007,03:01

Thanks for all the feedback. The cnt alt f1/f2 works great.