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@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Keith, i have not physical access to the server, so its not possible to do
> that commands!
>
> Cleiton
>
> > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> > From: kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:47:33 -0700
> > Subject: Re: Boot.log Issue
> >
> > On 2012-08-10, Cleiton Cipriani <cleitoncipriani@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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