Re: New console output at boot?

From: Garance ELC Drosehn <gadcode_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:40:37 UTC

On 22 Sep 2024, at 20:20, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Since an update to current a couple of weeks ago, I now see several 
> lines
> (6 or 7) early in the boot. I'm not sure whether it is from one of the
> boots or the loader, but it comes out so quickly (and so briefly) but 
> it
> vanishes on my display before I can read it.

Just a minor aside:  At various times on various OS's I've hit 
situations where messages go by too fast at boot-up.  It finally 
occurred to me that I could use some of the alternate video-recording 
modes on my iPhone to record the screen during the entire boot-up 
process, and then rewatch the boot-up process in slow motion.  This 
trick has helped me solve a few problems that none of us at work were 
able to fix, because none of our eyes are fast enough to read all of 
those boot-up messages as they fly by.

And before this, none of us had thought to take out our 
modern-technology cell phones to record messages on the very 
ancient-technology of "serial console" messages written to a the screen 
of a monitor.

			-- garance