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echo: rberrypi
to: JOHN CARTER
from: PANCHO
date: 2020-06-19 15:26:00
subject: Re: Logs

On 19/06/2020 03:07, John Carter wrote:
> T M Smith  wrote in
> news:5df3fded54.Broadband@tmsmith36.plus.com:
>
>> Using Rasbian on a Pi is there a log kept of the data that scolls
>> past as the system boots?
>>
>> Malcolm Smith
>>
>
> I was told early on that there was no log. It has something to do with
> the BOOT process starting in the GPU and there is a point where the
> filesystem is mounted such that it is too late to do any BOOT logging.
>
> Pleae correct me here if this is wrong.
>

I can't comment on whether you are right or wrong.

I understand the BIOS boot sequence might not be able to write to disk
but surely the boot process needs access to the file system before
booting Linux from the file system.

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