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Subject: Re: pausing boot process
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James Bailie wrote:
> J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> 
>  > Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is
>  > read-able??
> 
> No.  After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and
> invoke "dmesg" to view kernel messages.
> 

Or you can press scroll lock and page up and down.
Eoghan