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Watching bootup messages



[part about dynamic ethernet device scanning deleted]
> 
> Something else that's useful, in case it hasn't been mentioned before
> or anyone has missed it:
> 
> SHIFT PAGE-UP and SHIFT PAGE-DOWN can be used to scroll back and forth
> on those messages that have scrolled past the screen.
> 
> Or is this something that works in just the distribution that I use?
> 
> Tom
> 

You can also view the important bootup and sometimes runtime messages via 
the 'dmesg' command.  This should be handy for those of us that have a 
rahter large complex boot process :^)

-Jon




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