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John Carter   wrote:

>> Using Rasbian on a Pi is there a log kept of the data that scolls
>> past as the system boots?

>I was told early on that there was no log. It has something to do with
>the BOOT process starting in the GPU

It does start in the GPU, but rapidly gets handed over to Linux ...

>there is a point where the
>filesystem is mounted such that it is too late to do any BOOT logging.

True: The early log entries can't be written *live* to a filesystem as
no filesystems are mounted, same for most Linux. But ..

You don't need a filesystem to maintain a log. You keep it in memory.

Does "dmesg" shortly after boot provide you the information you need?

"dmesg: The program helps users to print out their bootup messages."

Note, the earlier entries will eventually be overwritten, so don't expect
to go back to when you booted days ago :)

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