On Jun 1, 2007, at 14:41, John R Pierce wrote: > the `dmesg` command will display the kernel message buffer, which > includes messages prior to syslogd starting up. also look in /var/ > log/messages > > as dmesg can eventually overflow with junk (iptables logging > messages, for instance), I've been known to stuff a command like > > dmesg > /var/log/dmesg.boot > > into /etc/rc.d/rc.local just to keep a copy of the state of dmesg > right after boot for later reference. > I believe that at this point init has just started, so that rc.local has not been called yet. But I'll give that a try next time. Alfred