boot text

[raspberry_pd]

(17th Jan, 2013 12:14 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Those messages should just be in your dmesg (/var/log/dmesg)

I have found that not all boot messages are saved in dmesg or syslog . In fact most error messages are not in dmesg. Hence I felt the need for a better solution and found bootlogd which I mentioned here:

http://forum.xbian.org/thread-182-post-1876.html#pid1876

I installed it and it works but there was a strange problem whereby the last third of characters on each line were obfuscated. If we can solve this buggy character issue, bootlogd might be the best way to trap boot errors and debug a whole bunch of problems.

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(17th Jan, 2013 12:09 AM)namtih Wrote:  When the Raspberry/xbian is starting you see a debug log before the xbian logo is shown. I wasn't able to find those messages on the filesystem or dmesg. So I was wondering if it needs any boot parameter so that the log is written to a file on the filesystem.

Please try this:

Code:

sudo apt-get install bootlogd

then add

Code:

BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes

to

Code:

/etc/default/bootlogd

and reboot. Then see if ...

Code:

/var/log/boot

contains helpful boot messages.

I'd be very interested to read your results. Do you see the scrambled or obfuscated characters near the end of lines?