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Subject: Re: Where I can find boot's dmesg
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> Hi cali,
>
>   Sorry for my bad English. I mean how can I find the booting message
> that shown at boot time before login: prompt such as
>
> CPU .... MHz
> Memory ........ KBytes
> ....
> PCI .....
> ATA ....
> CDROM .....
> ....
> and .... blah blah blah.....

Type "dmesg" at the command prompt, obviously if you want to put it into a 
file, type

dmesg > file

If you are superuser you can also cat these files:

/var/log/dmesg.today
/var/log/dmesg.yesterday

and anybody can cat

/var/run/dmesg.boot

cali