On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:28 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:17:56 -0600 > Phil Meyer wrote: > > > So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few lines > > by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info, > > and that all these messages happen in the same second or two, you have > > found the top of the boot sequence. > > All of which make my point that it would sure be a lot > simpler if there was merely a known string always printed > at the top :-). > > At one time I relied on timestamp gaps till I was trying to > figure out the logs on a system where ntp was fighting > with something else and the time kept wildly swinging > on the running system. Actually I think it would be simpler if each new boot simply started a new log file. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines