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  • From: "Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] single user desktop
  • Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:46:40 -0500

On 23 Dec 2003 at 2:16, Day Brown wrote:
[SNIP]
>BTW: I havnt tried it, but does the print screen key still work? With
>dos, if there's a problem in the boot process, I can often hit the print
>screen, and get hard copy before all the error messages scroll off the
>screen. In any case, what appeals to me is this sequential process,
>whereby each stage of the BL launch process, no matter how badly it is
>screwed up, cannot prevent the earlier stage from being a useful place
>to begin to diagnose problems.
[SNIP]

I don't believe that the PrintScrn key will work that way, but Linux
has it even better. Use the command:

dmesg | more

and you'll get all of the boot information, a screen at a time. (At
least in BL2.1, which is what I have available to test at the moment.)

Anthony Albert

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