mark did not mean pipe, i meant redirect output to a file. dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt_2012dec15 david On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:38 PM, David Lopez wrote: > mark > > on you machine from a terminal, do a "dmesg" command and pipe it to a file > for inspection using cat or text editor. > you should see the relative times on the left and output of your boot up > on the right. maybe you can figure it out. > > david > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > >> I have an older Dell Tower running Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian >> 2.6.32-41squeeze2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian >> 4.3.5-4) ). It is a headless system that just serves some web pages, php, >> mysql, and a few others. It stopped booting, so I hooked up a monitor and >> keyboard and rebooted. It ran into problems checking the disk, so I let it >> boot into read only mode and ran fsck. I accepted all the defaults - there >> were some damaged inodes, so I let it fix them. It is booting OK now and >> seems to be running OK. The broken inodes were in some perl packages (late >> last night, did not write down the package name). >> >> The only strange behavior now occurs right at boot - it hangs a long time >> (~2 min) at the first two steps after grub loads: >> Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 - ~ 1 min >> Loading initial ramdisk - ~1 min >> There is only 1 gig of ram in the system, so the ram disk cannot be that >> large! - >> Ouput from top: >> top - 18:09:05 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.16, 0.06 >> Tasks: 84 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st >> Mem: 1032772k total, 176740k used, 856032k free, 6916k buffers >> Swap: 2017272k total, 0k used, 2017272k free, 90536k cached >> >> Is there anything I should do at this point, or just keep it running? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > David López > Software Engineer > -- David López Software Engineer