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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Seeing start-up messages
  • Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:59:33 +1000

Hi Folks,

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:41:09 +0100, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hello,

> I'm new to the group having installed Basic Linux just yesterday on an old
> -
> make that *very* old (17 years) - laptop.
> The machine is very basic too having no network connection and only a
> floppy
> disk for software transfer purposes.
> I bought it in a second hand shop for a couple of euro and have
> unfortunately
> had to scrap about half the hard disk capacity
> due to bad sectors :-(.

> But the good news is, BL3 works on it albeit without the GUI but who
> cares... I
> wanted to learn the linux command line stuff.

> One question to begin with though: Is it possible in some way to halt the
> avalanche of start -up messages so that
> I can see what's going on before they dissappear from the (black & white
> ;-))
> screen?

At the CLI type: dmesg | less

then you can scroll up and down the bootup messages

Regards,
Ron


Ron Clarke
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