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Watching bootup messages



> then, make sure that during boot-up it finds your net device.  the code seems to
> go out and sense the devices so if it's physically not there, or at the wrong
> address, you don't see it. this can be observed by carefully watching the
> messages that happen at startup.  they MIGHT go in the system log too (do 
> man syslog to find the system log)

Something else that's useful, in case it hasn't been mentioned before
or anyone has missed it:

SHIFT PAGE-UP and SHIFT PAGE-DOWN can be used to scroll back and forth
on those messages that have scrolled past the screen.

Or is this something that works in just the distribution that I use?

Tom




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