This was broken in rhel5. I think all flavors. Just google 'rhel5 boot.log empty'. It is fixed in rhel6 with the addition of plymouth.
From the rhel5.3 releasenotes:
Boot-time logging to /var/log/boot.log is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Cleiton Cipriani < cleitoncipriani@tpa.com.br> wrote:
Keith, i have not physical access to the server, so its not possible to do that commands!
Cleiton
To: centos@centos.org From: kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:47:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue
On 2012-08-10, Cleiton Cipriani cleitoncipriani@tpa.com.br wrote:
I everybody... i need help to enable boot.log at CentOS 5... i have a
old server running for a few months, and sometimes when system boots up, a can see FAIL status, but the screen scrools fast and i cant determine which service can not boot up properly...
You should be able to use ctrl-s to stop the flow of text, then use page up/down to view the actual messages; when done, ctrl-q (IIRC) will resume output to the terminal.
--keith
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