Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:15:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Pausing kernel boot messages |
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On Aug 27 2007 14:13, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: >> >> How do you pause the kernel boot messages ? >> >> >> >> ^S, Pause and Scroll lock do nothing and you can't Shift-Page-Up after a >> >> kernel panic. >> > >> > These are functions of a shell (like bash), >> >> Definitely not. The shell is not a console driver, it only uses it. > >Right, I wasn't precise. But it's still possible that you don't have your >keyboard available during early parts of the boot process.
Yes, but a common error is "could not mount root", which is way after the keyboard has been initialized. *In fact*, you can start initramfs, have your PgUp/PgDown keys available, and when you exit out of initramfs without a valid root filesystem, you lose the keys again.
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