On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:53, you wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:31:43AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > Recently I have begun to get a great number of messages at boot-up which > > are about 'querying' scsi drives. I need to get a better look at the > > messages, but cannot find them in the logs in /var/log. Is there another > > place where bootup messages are recorded? > > You'll have them printed by typing 'dmesg' > Regards, > Frederik > the messages aren't in there either ;( . the weird thing about them is they say that the boot process is checking a scsi device, of which i have none on my system. this phenomenon started btw after i installed the following: suspend2 software to configure the touchpad laptop mode acpi-related stuff also simultaneous to the appearance of the new messages was the appearance of a recurring 'mini-hang' in the system. the hang lasts about one second and occurs every 4 mins 2 secs exactly, except for a short period after booting, when the intervals are smaller though still in a precise pattern. whenever the hang occurs, the fan comes on for about 10 seconds. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs