/var/log/boot.msg

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

Hi all,
I couldn't wait any longer and decided to follow the Tips and Tricks of the Gentoo news letter of August (http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050822-newsletter.xml).

The idea is to get a log of my boot process in /var/log/boot.msg

so I unmasked sys-apps/baselayout and followed the instructions... but after booting, I get nothing else than a blank line.

Any one have any clue of what I might have done wrong?!?

Thanks
Ed.
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dgaffuri · Advocate Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 2078 Location: Italy

I think you've to set

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

yup, did that... I wouldn't dare post here without at least following the two lines of instructions

Followed the doc as mentioned in Tips and Tricks:

install:

Then change /etc/conf.d/rc to

... and of course, reboot to populate

but I get:

swimmer · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:46 am Post subject:

Bumpdidump ...

BlackB1rd · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

Pompidom... Same problem here... Seems to be broken?

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

Oups... I thought I had replied to this thread...

I found out that the problem was that I had a bootsplash and that it conflicted with showconsole... It seems to only work without a bootsplash.

Long time ago as you may see so can't remember the fine details, sorry.
-Ed
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BlackB1rd · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:12 am Post subject:

Unfortunately that's not the solution here. Still got one blank line in boot.msg. I'm using nitro sources, maybe because of that it doesn't work?

I'm using baselayout-1.12.0_pre15-r1 and showconsole-1.07.