On 25 Jun 2003, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 06:41, edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Where can I find the boot screen messages? I've looked > > in all my logs, but can't find any reference to an > > error I'm getting. Modprobe: can't locate module > > bsd.comp > > Type "dmesg" or look at /var/log/messages. perhaps someone can clarify this for me, but there are two sources of "dmesg" output lines: the "dmesg" command itself, and /var/log/dmesg. based on what i've read, since the kernel ring buffer has a finite size, unless you run "dmesg" soon after booting, the earliest kernel-generated boot messages may be dropped from the ring buffer. is this the case with /var/log/dmesg? anyone want to take a crack at explaining this carefully? rday
