on Friday 20 April 2007 09:45 pm, BJD@Takoma.com (Blind Joe Death) wrote:

> I am running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on my Blue and White G3.
>
> During boot, the display shows what is being installed and if it's "ok"
> or "failed."
>
> There are two cases of "failed" but the screen is scrolling so fast i
> can't tell what it is.
>
> Does the machine keep a log of the most recent boot that might tell me
> what didn't install correctly or whether it is even matters or not?
>
> One of them looks like it has to do with RAID and since i don't have a
> RAID setup i assume it's no problem. The other, however, goes by so
> fast I can't read it.
>
> can anyone help with this?

Normally, logging messages that you see on the screen during boot are
also found in /var/log/messages. You need to be 'root' user to view it
though. Additionally, you can try the 'dmesg | more' and see if anything
looks goofy (any message that says failed)

>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe

jerry
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In article <2178470.i3kofxAl8W@unix.hobbeshollow.com>, Jerry Heyman
wrote:

> on Friday 20 April 2007 09:45 pm, BJD@Takoma.com (Blind Joe Death) wrote:
>
> > I am running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on my Blue and White G3.
> >
> > During boot, the display shows what is being installed and if it's "ok"
> > or "failed."
> >
> > There are two cases of "failed" but the screen is scrolling so fast i
> > can't tell what it is.
> >
> > Does the machine keep a log of the most recent boot that might tell me
> > what didn't install correctly or whether it is even matters or not?
> >
> > One of them looks like it has to do with RAID and since i don't have a
> > RAID setup i assume it's no problem. The other, however, goes by so
> > fast I can't read it.
> >
> > can anyone help with this?
>
> Normally, logging messages that you see on the screen during boot are
> also found in /var/log/messages. You need to be 'root' user to view it
> though. Additionally, you can try the 'dmesg | more' and see if anything
> looks goofy (any message that says failed)
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
>
> jerry

thank you.

Joe