Theo  wrote:
> But as soon as the Linux kernel is loaded it starts logging.  To begin with
> it logs to a memory buffer.  When the filesystem/init system comes up that
> buffer is written to disc and subsequent logging gets appended.
>
> The memory buffer can be dumped via the 'dmesg' command or the /proc/kmsg
> device.  The location of the log can vary by distro but /var/log/messages,
> kern.log and boot.log are good places to start.

Forgot to add, a lot of the messages that are displayed at boot aren't
coming from the kernel, but from other services on the system.  Those don't
show up in dmesg, which is purely the kernel's log.

Other log mechanisms will show them, such as the 'journalctl' command, or
looking in places like /var/log/syslog.

Theo

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