Boot log

English Install/Boot/Login
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When the system boots, before the splash screen comes up you see the boot commands executing scrolling up the screen.

Is this dumped to a file somewhere? I’d like to look through it so I can see what actually takes place during a boot.

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suse tpx60s wrote:
> When the system boots, before the splash screen comes up you see the
> boot commands executing scrolling up the screen.
>
> Is this dumped to a file somewhere? I’d like to look through it so I
> can see what actually takes place during a boot.

All of that stuff can be read with the command ‘dmesg | less’. Most of
the messages are in /var/log/boot.msg - the rest is in /var/log/messages’.
…

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Thanks. I also just came across it in YAST under Miscellaneous>Boot-log

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suse tpx60s wrote:
> Thanks. I also just came across it in YAST under Miscellaneous>Boot-log

The GUI there reads /var/log/boot.msg.

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For a nice, helpful, GANNT-like chart of boot activity, give bootchart a try.
HTH