Watching bootup messages

[albert at ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan)]

> An undocumented (at least in the HOWTOs, but documented supposedly in the 
> code, and pointed out by Linus when we spoke at MIT) was the ability to 
> get special info via CNTL-Printscreen, ALT-Printscreen, and 
> Shift-Printscreen.   (At least I think it was the Printscreen key he used).
> 
> This worked fine on the Alpha demo'd at his talk, but only shows up in the 
> /var/adm/messages file on my 386.
> 
> Is there any way to get this info redirected to 'normal' output? (i.e. 
> /dev/console)?

Messages like this have a priority number.  Low priority messages on your
system only go into logfiles.  Check klogd/syslogd, you can change the
cutoff point for /dev/console priority, or maybe just kill some daemons :)